> Fri, Mar 09, 2012 at 02:13:23PM +0100, Jaromil wrote:
>
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQREDQjfzC4
>> Europe is depicted as a "good" woman that sieges and makes disappear
>> other ethnicities, but she is still very close from a soldier beating
>
> Well, I see different peoples in the video becoming unite like
> "stars" in the same shape... Am I looking at a different video?
>
> I don't feel nothing bad in this! I see different people
> becoming unite!
>

Hi, So I am now not the only one going for the 'naive look' at that video,
which makes me happy (thanks Asbesto!), but indeed, as Felipe points out,
'the poison is in the tail' - instead of harmony & peace, the 'strangers'
vanish, which points out that they were indeed to be seen as a threat.
That's indeed the clincher and makes teh video a no-no in the end
(litterally).

I asked my friend the discourse analyst and elite racism specialist Teun
A. van Dijk (http://discourses.org) about his opinion. He replied
(translation is mine):

Well, yeah, it's surely not the smartest way to advertise the EU ... Sure
there is in it a mix of nationalism, eurocentrism, racism, etc

But I leave in-depth analysis to experts in the multi-modal domain.

Cheerio, p+4D!