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© Copyright 2001 Jack C. Straton

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Part of the value in a diversity sequence is giving students an appreciation for a culture other than the dominant one. We show them either

• Double Happiness, a movie written and directed by Mina Shum that explores the bicultural challenges faced by a young woman growing up in a traditional Chinese family in Vancouver, B.C., or Smoke Signals, focusing on the lives of two young Native American Indian men from the Coeur d'Alene reservation in Idaho.

References:

Double Happiness, Written and directed by Mina Shum, starring Sandra Oh, Alannah Ong, Stephen Chang, Frances You, Johnny Mah. Produced by Steve Hegyes and Rose Lam Waddel (Video on New Line, 1994, 87 minutes).

Smoke Signals,Directed by Chris Eyre, written by Sherman Alexie, starring Adam Beach, Evan Adams and Irene Bedard. Produced by Larry Estes, Scott M. Rosenfelt. (Video on Miramax, 1998, 89 minutes).

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