Keyword: diversity

Diversity Report Finds Hollywood out of Touch with Audience Preferences

Picture: Quvenzhane Wallis and Halle Berry on the red carpet at the 2013 Oscar awards. Wallis played the lead role in a recent remake of the classic movie Anna Majavu - Diversity in casting is said to be “at its peak”. Industry publications, such as Deadline Hollywood, have written of a “noticeable shift” towards the casting of Black actors lately, particularly in new TV series screened all over the world such as ‘Love is a Four Letter Word’, ‘How to Get Away With Murder’, and ‘Endgame’. This is a marked difference from the way things have always been done in Hollywood and other major centres of...

What is Cosmopolitanism and Is It Under Threat?

Picture: www.nas.org Video Professor Kwame Anthony Appiah is a philosopher advocating a school of thought called 'cosmopolitanism'. He describes cosmopolitanism as a very old tradition because the word "cosmopolitan" comes from the Greek phrase from the 4th century BC, 'kosmopolites', which means "citizen of the world". It is a tradition of thought, which tries to develop a metaphor for the idea that we are all citizens of the world, he explains. Cosmopolitans welcome diversity of culture,...