Interculturalism in Our Community

A-Team Production

Skit video on interculturalism and its impact on the community. The focus is on stereotypes and the common (perceived) uncomfortable reliance on people with a racial divide. There is unity in diversity, but people have to integrate and seek out the connection in each other to experience this. Created for the Office of Cultural & Academic Transition (OCAT) and Intercultural Aides by the Akers Hall intercultural aide staff.

Production is credited to Tyler Clifford, Jalen Garrett, Paowow Kue, Matt Nguyen, Arielle Rawlings, and Stephanie Rousseau.

The scenes take place on the campus of Michigan State University in East Lansing.

[Iconoclastithon]

I think what they say about Interculturalism is PARTLY true. However in some ways some of what they say sounds more like multi-culturalism, which inherently promotes racial/cultural/etc herd mentality and just furthers stereotypes as a result, and also as a result harms genuine individuality.
Interculturalism is absed, IMO, on the idea of inter-active dialogue between different cultures and tolerance of other cultures, yes; but more importantly I think it gives us a way to get past the imposed herd mentality, stereotype promotion/being, and racial/cultural/etc self-segregationism. It is about INDIVIDUAL INDIVIDUALITY{or if you like "multi-individualism"} and the right to not be absorbed into a herd and it's herd ways; you can be white, black, native, oriental/eastern, middle eastern, western, american, canadian, irish, british, Japaneze, North African or south african, Arabian, Israelite, Iranian, or of any sub-culture and not fit the stereotypes of said culture believed by people of other cultures as a result of so many within any given 'cult-ure" intentionally being stereotypes and herd minded.

Inter-culturalism should be about genuine individuality, not about herd think- and i think that many of the people in theis video are dooing that and confusing interculturalism with what multiculturalism is/does/promotes, which are logically fallacious and a slap in the face to GENUINE individuality. Of course they are right that interculturalism is or should also be about dialogue between cult-ures as well, but it should also be about diaologue and evolution and individuality within any given cult-ure or sub-cult-ure.

That's why I oppose multic-ulturalism and cultural relativism and support interculturalism..though merely as a stepping stone to multi-individualism.

I think, however, that if we put CULT-ures or cult-ural diversity{pseudo-diversity} above the individual{or individual/genuine diversity} that we are making a grave mistake and that