They did this through the stories they heard during their training, and they even brought some storytellers directly into their classrooms. One teacher even created a “thematic year” with everything she had learned (Bequette, 2014). The empathy that the teacher reported and conveyed to his students could be an example of ethnocultural empathy. Teachers and their students were able to observe and appreciate the unique culture of local Native American tribes. They were also able to understand the challenges faced by modern members and recognize the fact that despite those culturally specific experiences, members of the tribe were still people just like them. One of the first articles on ethnocultural empathy cites the need for this skill in the Rodney King beating incident and the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, not only in the wounds inflicted on King, or in the tragic deaths caused by the attacks, but in the injuries and deaths that occur due to them. The beating of Rodney King sparked the Los Angeles riots in the early 1990s. Terrorist attacks lead to hate crimes against people of Middle Eastern origin. The paper mainly reflected on how to measure ethnocultural empathy and how, if more people had this ability, fewer people would be hurt in these response crimes because these people would understand that those who committed the atrocities were not representative of the entire population. (Bergland, 2013; Wang.