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Caryl Phillips and Ian Buruma: Modern European Culture

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Phillips and Buruma on Hidden Identities Made Visible

04 min 21 sec

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Caryl Phillips and Ian Buruma discuss the history of the Holocaust in Europe and the ideological implications of being forced to display one's formerly hidden identity.
Caryl Phillips on Anonymity and Cultural Identity

04 min 53 sec

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Caryl Phillips talks about the humbling benefits of anonymity for artists in New York City. He and Ian Buruma also examine the struggles faced by Muslim immigrants in Europe as they try to both assimilate and forge their own identity.
Phillips and Buruma: From Assimilation to Extremism

04 min 42 sec

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Ian Buruma and Caryl Phillips recall that most immigrants in the past aspired to assimilate into mainstream culture. Now, a sizable minority of Muslim immigrants seek to remain antagonistically disparate. They discuss what could be driving today's young European Muslims to extremism.
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mha1972

Posted: 10.12.09, 11:51 AM

Technical quality of the recording is BAD, and England/London is NOT "Europe", but just ONE (small!) country on that continent.

kikl

Posted: 08.25.09, 10:23 AM

Boring!

SayHiThere

Posted: 07.23.09, 07:11 AM

This is an interesting discussion of european identity and culture. It also provides an outline of a clear way to look at other groups. The video production, itself, leaves much to be desired and can teach in that way. Camera focus never changes. Sound is on the level of carrying the mic to the speaker and arriving too late to catch the whole question. Background for the video could have a curtin with pictures of the author's books. Nothing is there.