Tuesday 30 June 2009

EMMA - multiculturalism embassador and its related thoughts

A fascinating website promoting multiculturalism, diversity and all kinds of humanities stunningly grab people's attention.

Emma, the online magazine, creatively demonstrate the multiculturalism through a wide range of human life - politics, community, education, lifestyle, entertainment and world.

Emma and its multiculturalism awareness

I am very much impressed by the site's outfit, it looks so ambitious, competitive, and also it has a taste of glamorous. The idea behind the site is just as stunning as the site itself.

To promote multiculturalism and diversity, understand cultural difference and accept it, be tolerant there is no good or bad culture, they are just different.

It seems quite an easy sentence to read, to write, or punctuated. But the hidden meaning behind the words are far more weighted and profound.

I once expressed my dislikeness or dissatisfaction of being staying with a foreign family (to a closed friend), the reason is because I think I just can't bear their way of living, more broadly speaking, I find it is very hard and incredibly difficult for me to adapt their life style.

Different stages when confronting a different culture

I think there are different stages when confronting different cultures. firstly, you see/feel/touch different kinds of cultures, then you know there're many differences compared it to yours.

Take a further step, you respond to this kind of different culture, you either accpet it or you just simply walk away, in this case you're not accepting it and indeed you utterly clashed with it I could say.

Some people even turned out to become much hatred, which is the fundamental reason where racism or discrimination coming from.

The other way around, you also can become very much like this kind of culture, and even wish to integrate with it, though the integrating process probably could harshly drive you crazy, it all depends an individual.

Key elements when confronting a different culture are openness, tolerance and trying to put your foot into the person's shose, trying to understand it.

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