This video shows clearly and precisely what we do with different people, shows clearly how we label people because of belonging to a culture or a different thought.

We must get these labels, as teachers we will be looking to promote the principles of brotherhood tolerance and free inquiry to reach a better and more united society.
fraternity does not exist without tolerance and tolerance is not without fraternity, and that should be applied to any cultural or religious thought.

Future Promoters.

For UNESCO, Cultural Diversity study has 3 important goals around the world:

- To raise awareness worldwide about the importance of intercultural dialogue, diversity and inclusion. 

- To build a world community of individuals committed to support diversity with real and every day-life gestures. 

- To combat polarization and stereotypes to improve understanding and cooperation among people from different cultures.

Very important aspects, and in some way the basis of our future teaching methods.

As teachers, we'll have to be promoters of tolerance and diversity to future generations, making them work together, sharing experiences to create atmospheres of respect, mutual care, and an open-minded vision of life.

I hope that this video shows you that the solutions for social differences, and struggles are in this litlle people. Let's teach them to share.

Don't judge a book by its cover

"The Stereotypes Song - (Your Favorite Martian music video)"

(http://youtu.be/wCgx8zM3woQ)

This song was made to make people laugh, but unfortunately it might offend someone else. Anyway, I chose it in order to show you how strong stereotypes can be. Just think about it, it was written and animated in the United States and it can still be funny all around the world. The main reason is simple: we tend to consider these characters as if they were true.

I think most of the things that are funny need previous knowledge about something. As we ignore much about these countries and its citizens we prefer to accept what mass media shows us on TV, Internet, Newspapers and so on. That is where everything starts: we watch a film and we think it shows the truth, then we read a magazine full of pictures from an European city and we believe that is the way the whole country is like. In the end it is completely wrong and we allow them to tell us what to think. Usually, we even pay to access these false contents (they are easy to make and easy to sell).

In my opinion, it is fine to laugh at things like this when you do know it is not true, as it just represents what you use to see about those countries (yes, stereotypes once again). However, we must be careful and it is our responsibility to bear in mind that we need to respect everyone if we want to be respected. Definitely, you cannot judge a book by its cover. Every place has got its own culture and way of thinking and in no case we have the right to say whether one culture is better or worse than the rest; they are simply as different as special.

We've talked enough of the British Indians to provide more information.

What I want to emphasize now to take the British Indians as a major subbroup in British society and the acceptance or rejection phenomenon that can take this country to Indian culture.

I personally think that this culture can be taken in two ways, and that is a real-life phenomenon, in one hand we have incclusion and acceptance of Indian culture to the country, but in the other hand it can be segregated and even Britains could want them out of the country.

Surprisingly, the British culture seems to include this culture and not segregate it, maybe a German guy wouldn't  act the same with a Turk guy.

I find it very interesting to compare this situation with our own peoples,  we should act like the British with the Indians, and we act in the opposite way.

Pixar's Day and Night

I really love this short film and it depicts perfectly well how people react to others who are different from them. To be afraid of people who are different, to hate them, to reach the point to fight against them just because they are different.
We must be able to see that different it's not bad, that differences can actually be cherished and that can help you improve as a person, that they make life interesting.
"Different" actually causes an inner conflict in us humans. People want to be different from each other, to be individuals, but at the same time they want to be like the rest so that they can fit in.
Someone said that we are all the same because we all want to be different.
Even if there exist differences between people let's not forget that we all need to eat and we all, hours later, evacuate whatever we ate.

Humanizing the God

     Watching movies about emperor of a reign or a very famous president ( example “The Iron Lady” or “The Queen”), I always think that the director of the movie (or serie) is trying to show to the people that the main character, the leader of the country always has a quite fragile, they (the directors) try to show the “Part B” of this characters. In the official history we can see majestics kings, imposing emperors and strong presidents, but in the movie we see those people in a more human view.

     

    For example, the movie of the life of the ex Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Margaret Thatcher (played by Meryl Streep), try to explain her term as a mad, schizophrenic and forgetful old lady, for my opinion that's a very exaggerated point of view (even knowing that she really was very polemic person).

    In the movie of 2006, "The Queen", the british actress Helen Mirren plays the role of The Queen Elizabeth II, after the death of Princess Diana, the UK's monarch and her family decide that for the best, they should remain hidden behind the closed doors of Balmoral Castle at Scotland. The people don't undertand her decision and request for the Queen's statement.

In this film we can see the Queen even as a very relaxed person, pressed by his huge responsibility, in a scene of the movie she tries to escape from his life walking on her garden with her dogs and talking about the life with the Prime Minister Tony Blair.

    In my point of view, the directors of these movies are trying attract the heed of the people by a new way, or at least different for the people. The viewer loves this kind of new feelings, they don't want to see the official history, they don't want to see how majestic are the kings, they don't want to see presidents saving the world against the alien menace. The people loves when the president is suffering, laughing, crying, their chilhood, their loves, they want to see if behind those cold hearts are feelings, pieces of humanity.

Stereotypes in cartoons

We all like cartoons, right? But, have you ever thought about the all the stereotypes that cartoons show us? For example, in "The Simpsons", they show things like all black people are really good at basketball. One time they made an episode about the Brazilians where they showed them like thiefs and like poor people. Another example is "South Park", in that series they always show the Mexicans like stupid people who always are looking for jobs and both series many times have shown stereotypes of black people, Native Americans, Japaneses, Chineses, and a few others. There are many more examples of this in another cartoons and maybe we think that this is not a great thing just because this are cartoons. But think about this, if a cartoon shows a stereotype of Chilean people and everyone in the rest of the world laugh about this, How will you feel? Would you laugh too? Or would you feel upset? think about this, because probably the next stereotype that you could see in TV, could be you.