Kanga Motema
„Kanga Motema“
is Lingala and means ‘silence’.
Cultural violence describes forms of violence that are justified or perpetrated by cultural norms, traditions or practices. This violence can be subtly communicated through language, symbols, rituals and social structures. It often serves to maintain unequal power relations and to oppress certain groups.
Examples:
- Discriminatory language: Terms that devalue minorities.
- Media: Films, advertising or news that reinforce stereotypes and prejudices.
- Gender roles: Traditional expectations that can lead to oppression.
- Religious or ethnic discrimination: rules that exclude or penalise certain groups.
Cultural violence can manifest itself at many levels of our daily lives, often without being directly recognised as such.
Examples:
- At school: Discrimination against pupils due to their ethnic origin
or religion. - In the media: news that report disproportionately negatively about certain ethnic
groups. - Among friends: jokes or comments based on stereotypes.
3. Why is this topic relevant to the education of children and young people?
- Cultural violence contributes to inequality in society and can reinforce discrimination, prejudice and hatred.
- Young people are often directly or indirectly affected, whether through social media,
education systems or cultural expectations in their environment. - Raising awareness of cultural violence can help to create a more just, inclusive and respectful society.
Kanga Motema
Insights from the video workshop
The topic is sensitive, how can we realise this with children and young people?
We started with short scripts, exercises to understand cultural violence and then short videos.
and with it an endless number of politically motivated hate comments under our posts!!! The team tried to engage in dialogue, but the responses were always similar and exasperating. Just bots! We deleted posts and put them up again. Within a very short time, we had hundreds of these comments under the posts again.
The young people were also specifically recruited in TikTok by right-wing parties, the atmosphere was very depressing.
It was clear that none of us in the team wanted to see our children and young people helplessly at the mercy of this racist hate speech. And the young people didn’t want to show their faces in front of the camera either.
We needed a new format!
The idea came from the children themselves, who loved getting together on Roblox. Little films in Roblox! Even the teenagers, who had only just outgrown Roblox, were enthusiastic.
Since then, we have continued to experiment in Roblox. in Canvas, we create slideshows with AI-generated images and music…..
If you want to try it out, the workshop runs until the end of this year. You can find all current dates here:
Ort: im Family Space
Gubener Str. 50,
10243 Berlin
Just drop by. If you would like more information, please send us an e-mail to info@gngberlin.de.
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