Oh Sheep!

"Two flocks of sheep are searching for companionship. But their shepherds, being at odds with each other, do everything to keep them separated." A really nice short film produced by Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg with a clear message.



Script: Gottfried Mentor, Max Lang Direction: Gottfried Mentor
Music: Matthias Klein
Sound Design: Roman Volkholz, Christian Heck
Animation: Harry Fast, Cordula Langhans, Paul Cichon, Bin Han To, Annie Habermehl, Gottfried Mentor
Technical Direction: Marcel Reinhard
Executive Producer: Leonid Godik, Gottfried Mentor
Production: Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg GmbH



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Quoting Charles Bronson

"Maybe I'm too masculine. Casting directors cast in their own, or an idealized image. Maybe I don't look like anybody's ideal."
Charles Bronson



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Lucy likes tomato sauce and I have smaller toes than Artie.

"From lettuce love (and hate!) to hard-hitting opinions on ketchup and toe size, these kids know what’s important ― friendship, openness and respecting each other’s differences, a lesson we can all learn from.
Their unscripted and natural responses is just what you would expect and demonstrates that children don’t make assumptions about people and their differences in the way that all too often grown-ups do."
Alice Webb, BBC Children’s Director



This video is part of the BBC campaign "Everyone's Welcome" that celebrates the beauty of diversity. It has reached more than 20 million views on the Facebook pages of CBeebies and BBC Family and Education News Facebook (via).



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People Are People

People are people
So why should it be
You and I should get along so awfully

So we're different colours
And we're different creeds
And different people have different needs
It's obvious you hate me
Though I've done nothing wrong
I've never even met you so what could I have done



I can't understand
What makes a man
Hate another man
Help me understand

Help me understand

Now you're punching
And you're kicking
And you're shouting at me
I'm relying on your common decency
So far it hasn't surfaced
But I'm sure it exists
It just takes a while to travel
From your head to your fists (via)

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Depeche Mode's first hit single in the U.S., written by Martin Gore (it is one of his least favourite songs), released on 12 March 1984
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Tom Waits on being 'different'

"My kids are starting to notice I'm a little different from the other dads. "Why don't you have a straight job like everyone else?" they asked me the other day.



I told them this story:



In the forest, there was a crooked tree and a straight tree. Every day, the straight tree would say to the crooked tree, "Look at me...I'm tall, and I'm straight, and I'm handsome. Look at you...you're all crooked and bent over. No one wants to look at you." And they grew up in that forest together. And then one day the loggers came, and they saw the crooked tree and the straight tree, and they said, "Just cut the straight trees and leave the rest." So the loggers turned all the straight trees into lumber and toothpicks and paper. And the crooked tree is still there, growing stronger and stranger every day."

 

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Making Differences Matter

One aspect of Diversity Management is increasing the diversity of a company's staff. Positive economic outcomes are expected as it does not only mean increasimg the number of different perspectives and approaches but also competitively relevant knowledge. However, that implies that people are able to bring in themselves, to bring in their whole selves to the workplace - an aspect that is at the very core of Diversity Management (Thomas & Ely, 1996).



- Thomas, D. A. & Ely, R. J. (1996) Making Differences Matter. A New Paradigm for Managing Diversity. Harvard Business Review, September-October, 1-12
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