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Your Country, My Country

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Your Country, My Country
1993, director: Marquise Lepage

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> Children's materials | Black people | Stereotypes | Children | Black Canadians

Description The film

Stereotypes can mislead. A 10 year-old schoolgirl who is Black has a little fun with a White friend who suggests they work together on a school project. A dramatization making the point that Canada is your country if you are born there.

Description The film

English version of a film about a friendship between two ten-year-old Montréal schoolkids. She is black and serious, he is white and rather nonchalant, and they look at life in different ways!