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Cultural diplomacy could reduce Xenophobia

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                  Antoine de Saint-Exupery said, “If you differ from me, my brother, rather than do me harm, you enrich me” is an ideal reaction when meeting a foreigner there is an opportunity to learn from other experiences. As the world gets smaller through globalization and migration, the world becomes more heterogeneous in terms of cultures, people, languages, and race which is enriching. The US military like many organizations is successful through leveraging on the diversity of its officers’ skill or languages and recruits from different ethnicity and religion. Although enrichment through the heterogeneity of the world is easily seen in organizations, it is often perceived negatively in some communities. The egoistic nature of some communities regularly driven by self-preservation leads to Xenophobia , as explained by Hurlemann et al (2017), this is partly due to evolution since only through solidarity within one's own group was it possible to survive against unknown a

The Propaganda Game Review

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 The Documentary aimed to investigate the lives of citizens and facts in North Korea which is an isolated nation. North Korea is isolated from the rest of the world and is heavily censored. There is little of known of the country hence there is a lot of speculation about lives of citizens, human rights violation, the economy and other issues. North Korea has an authoritarian government and Juche ideology which citizen live by. The producer,   Alvaro Longoria ,   and his crew were given a set of rules to abide by during the filming of this documentary, one of which was that they could not leave their hotel rooms alone. The also had a pre-approved list places to visit during this period and were escorted throughout. First, they visited the statues of the fathers, a monument where all north Koreans go to pay respect to their leaders by bowing and bring flowers. Citizens also visit this place when an important event in their lives occur like weddings. From an early age, this res