On Danish doings
This is much related with the latest Muslim cartoons, still it is interesting to grasp the other cultural issues that are stated between the lines...
here you go:
The ideal islandThe imagery used certainly made Denmark come off as some latter-day Aryan nation, full of blond-haired, blue-eyed Übermenschen, happy to live on their utopian island. Never mind that Denmark is home to immigrants from all over the world of all faiths and cultures, who have found happiness and a safe haven for themselves and their families taking full advantage of what Denmark has to offer. Read more about it
here.
hello you, people of the world!!
I am making my "debut" on this blog as a simple @'s Culture Sensitivity Task Force member. Why me? I don't exactly know… maybe because lately I am hunted by a thought that keeps coming to my mind...as Katie Melua’s song says:
“There are six BILLION people in the world
More or less
and it makes me feel quite small…”
Can you imagine? How big the world really is, how few we know about it? I feel as if I kept my eyes closed and I am ashamed in the same time of own my ignorance…
The real truth is that first of all I want “me” to be more cultural sensitive and then maybe to open a little bit the eyes of others if they allow me to!!
Did I ever told you that when I was a little girl I was dreaming and hoping to find out that I was adopted??(and I wasn’t a molested child, believe me:))? I just wanted my real mom to be... Patricia Kass (vive la France!!) and I was practicing the few words in knew in French in front of the mirror so that when her tours would have been over, to take me and the ‘other parents’ (I also truly loved them!!) back were I belonged: in France!!!
...this till I found some pictures with my mom as a child! we looked to much alike! i was in denial for a while but I had to face reality: I was the daughter of my parents and a Romanian!! And now I say is not bad at all!!
So after all I am also one of the people of the world, I can assume my own culture and keep interest in other cultures. I want to know, to understand, to learn at least something about how the world goes around for the other 6 billion people in the world!!
So please don’t tie my eyes and help me by posting your opinions and experiences on this blog!!
