Friday, December 5, 2008

A Few Notes on Culture, Change, and the Future



This is Indian Bollywood actress *Karishma Kapoor* modeling a high fashion Indian *sari*



THE WORLD IS ALREADY DIFFERENT!!! CHANGE HAS ALREADY HAPPENED!!! WE JUST NEED TO REALIZE IT!!!

If you want to know about culture today and what it is that is 'trendy' or whatever, you have to know that race and class don't matter in the way that you might think. They don't matter in that blatant stereotypes and pidgeonholing of people into specific categories is something that has broken down tremendously. In the videos below, you will see two women of color - one African American woman, and one Sri Lankan woman who is English. These two women are trendsetters of today and the influences of a generation that is going to determine our future.

Adults may feel like we have a more 'realistic' vision of the world because we have been here longer. But, the future is not a world in which we are stuck in archaic structures of racism and exotification of non-White peoples and women. The future is people being people, doing what they do, creating what they will, dreaming as big as they want, and fulfilling those dreams, regardless of sexual orientation, race, belief system, religion, nationality, or income level.

So what do you think about THAT?????



Janelle Monae - Many Moons:







M.I.A. - Jimmy:



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