With grandparents who were African-American/Native American, Filipino/Chinese, German and Danish, 35-year-old Teja Arboleda (a self-styled Ethnic Man) grew up speaking German as his first language, before moving to the United States, where he picked up English, and later on to Japan, where he learned to speak Japanese fluently. In each country he was treated as a foreigner and outsider. While he claims to have come to terms with himself and his family heritage, his uber-geek/protoypical dumb jock stage persona is a composite of shrieking attempts at humor, smart-aleck asides and stereotypes. You would expect someone with the advantage of world-wide cultural understanding and trilingualism to present the story of his life in a mature fashion, building bridges to young audiences with limited understanding and experience. Instead, Arboleda, who has successfully exploited his life-story-as-victim on the one-man show circuit since 1992, comes across as a guy with a chip on both shoulders. While he's quite right in that the average citizen of the planet looks like him, we can all be grateful that at least most don't act like him. This would be an optional purchase at $19.95, but at $255, libraries can easily find better and less expensive programs on diversity, racism, and multiculturalism. Aud: H, P. (R. Reagan)
Diversity: The World of Ethnic Man
(2000) 35 min. $255 (teacher’s guide). AGC/United Learning. PPR. Closed captioned. Vol. 15, Issue 2
Diversity: The World of Ethnic Man
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