1. Meet the groups: choose two of five

Warning. THE MOST IMPORTANT SENTENCE ON THIS BADGE IS PRINTED ABOVE THIS REQUIREMENT AND HAS NO NUMBER. It says to choose THREE groups with different racial, cultural, national or ethnic backgrounds, ONE OF WHICH COMES FROM YOUR OWN BACKGROUND, and to use those groups for requirements 1, 2 and 3. There is no box to tick beside it, which is exactly why it gets read past. Make that choice deliberately and write the three down. Then note what this requirement does with them: two of the five options, each using a DIFFERENT group, so two of your three get used here.

Warning. CHOOSE YOUR GROUPS WITH THIS LIST IN FRONT OF YOU, NOT BEFORE IT. Four of these five options need a community you can actually reach: a festival that is running near you, an institution that will have you, a person willing to talk, an exhibit that is about one of your groups. Only 1(d), learning something traditional and teaching it to your friends, needs no access at all. Choose three groups with no local presence and you have closed four doors without knowing it. The badge helps here in a way it never explains: one of your three must be your own background, and that group you can always reach. Since this requirement wants two options using different groups, your own can carry one of them, and only ONE other group has to be within reach. Let the third be whichever you most want to learn about, because requirements 2 and 3 need no access.