To clarify that point, I mean that in this age the media has overt racism as an unacceptable thing, but still manages to do things that reinforce racist opinion. Same with issues of sexuality, more or less.
Whereas in private, there are a lot of people with opinions they know are publicly unacceptable, but they are still their opinions, and are more likely to reveal them privately. Videoblogging blurs some of the lines between private, semi-private and mass media, as well as geographical, national and cultural boundaries being less lpresent in cyberspace, its a recipie for all these issues to get mixed up again. Some bad is going to come out of it but I hope good can also happen. I also think that the general wellbeing and health of the different cultures and subcultures that make up humanity, is vital for helping these issues. Its more than a little worrying that our own societies are not so sane at the moment, in an age where we've got it probably as good as it can get, in terms of total resources available to the people of the planet. We need to be understanding and getting on with eachother, and for the young of all cultures to have more peace and satisfaction in the future, before the actual realities of the future give us more reasons to tear eachother apart. That old phrase 'united we stand, divided we fall', is going to have increased relevance in the future, methinks. Anyway videoblogging and other net video stuff will sometimes do harm in these realsm, but it sure has the potential to do a lot of good. If any of the misunderstandings between cultures have been perpetuated by the nature of mass media, this can be undone slowly over time via people being themselves on video. But alone this may not do much, genuine equality of opportunity must be marched towards on many other fronts. Cheers Steve Elbows --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, "Steve Watkins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Well thats certainly true in so much as if we look at areas where > television fails massively to accurately reflect society, racism & > racist humor are a very obvious example.
