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Common Ties: Living Together in a Multicultural World*by Patricia del Valle, Ph.D., NCC, Maria Gondra, Psy.D., and Raysa Richardson, Ph.D.When children enter a new culture, they often experience fear, anxiety, and stress. These children and their native-born peers are engaged in a socialization process,??the former learning to navigate in a new environment, the latter learning to welcome children from unfamiliar cultures.Common Ties eases this process by helping children find shared feelings and experiences and accept differences in a non-divisive way.To start, each player is given a “passport.” The goal is to travel around the colorful game board, visiting seven geograph