Wednesday, 2 December 2009

Baudrillard - Violence with a Multicultural Society

For the presentation, we decided to go along the lines of a simple presentation with the injection of a couple of video and relevant images and examples.
Since my last post, I have been very busy renting books from the library and doing Internet research on Baudrillard and his views on multiculturalism. Eventually I came to the conclusion that Baudrillard's whole thought revolved around the theory of 'Radical Otherness' and 'The Code'. He explains how society such reject identity, as it is not 'real'. Through rejecting the ideas of identity and what we have that makes us individual, we put an end to the growing hate which is inevitable in society. This is the hate that would eventually lead to violence within the world and smaller communities.
Multicultural societies are more prone to violence and hatred, because the differences are more than obvious to the naked eye. eg. Black/White, Christian/Muslim, British/German.
It is important to understand these sort of differences are those that influence violence because these are the most obvious.
The most common form of violence and hatred that we experience within the world is 'Racism' - race is not only a physical difference but it also holds a belief difference.
Violence and Hatred that comes from racism creates social harm - and transmits negative vibe into the whole society. Race, for example also carries a stereotype (some of these stereotypes are seen as negative) - and therefore it becomes another reason behind violence. The conclusion to this statement would be: Race / Stereotype = Violence and Hatred.

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