Multiculturalism

"Multiculturalism"

By: LiliMayPat

"This video is the final result of our English assignement on the Multicultural World; our aim is to open people's minds so that they may accept others' differences. During the production of the video we improved our critical and creative thinking. Just when we made the video could we understand how difficult it was to make others infer, speculate and relate information." (LiliMayPat, 2010)

This video offers a lot of great visuals and plays the song, "Where is the love", by the Black Eyed Peas. I think that it does a great job at identitfying what multiculturalism truly is. "Multiculturalism is the preservation of different cultures or cultural identities within a unified society, as a state or nation." (Dines & Humes, 2003)

I believe that this video opens up my eyes in more than one way and does a great job at displaying media culture through image construction, ideological positions, and narrative strategies. I think this video portrayed to me the struggles between different races, classes gender and social groups. It makes me want to go out show the love by really helping people and situations in the community that I can control.

Sources:

Dines, G. & Humes, J. (Eds.) (2003) Gender, Race, Class and Media (Second Edition) Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage

LiliMayPat (2010). Multiculturalism [Web]. Retrieved from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEodXiX4gDQ