Diversity: European blockages
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Chloé Lopes Gomes, dancer, specifically denounces the racism of which she was a victim.
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By: Frédérique Lebel
23 min
Omerta, forbidden to speak.
It is with discrimination on the basis of skin color, like all other forms of segregation, they do not express themselves.
And we are struggling to find the solutions.
Today we talk about diversity in Accents d'Europe.
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Racism on the tips
And focus on classical dance.
At the prestigious Palais Garnier in Paris, a quarter of the staff signed a manifesto in September 2020 entitled: "From the racial question to the Paris Opera".
Dancers ask the institution to fight more firmly against racial prejudice.
The new director has also launched a mission on the subject, the conclusions of which are still awaited.
In Paris, Berlin and elsewhere in Europe, dancers are calling for more diversity within ballets.
A dancer denounces precisely the racism of which she was a victim, at the microphone of
Juliette Rengeval.
Quotas in the administration
And to fight against racism, do we need quotas?
This is called positive discrimination.
In Germany, people start to think about it timidly.
The Berlin senator responsible for integration does not mince words, saying, I quote, that racism is deeply rooted in our society.
And she argues with two figures, if across the country, 25% of the population comes from immigration, this rate drops to 15% among employees of the public administration.
The German capital could become the first land in the country to introduce quotas in the public service.
In Berlin, the explanations of Julien Méchaussie.
Turkish, exclusively
In Turkey, a geographical and ethnic crossroads, heir to the Ottoman Empire, the question of diversity is an indisputable fact.
But this diversity is a taboo, a non subject if one evokes the public policy or the company.
National identity is Turkish identity, exclusively especially under the Erdogan regime.
In Istanbul, Anne Andlauer.
The Multiethnic Society of "Bridgerton"
And it is undoubtedly because it plunges us into a utopian multiethnic society that the Netflix series “Bridgerton” is talked about a lot in the United Kingdom.
A romantic drama which takes place during the regency in England and which arouses much debate in the press and among historians.
In London, Marie Billon.
Beethoven at Auschwitz
This Wednesday, January 27, 2021, is the international day dedicated to the memory of the victims of the Holocaust.
It was on this same date that the Auschwitz Birkenau camp was liberated in 1945, where more than a million victims, mostly Jews, were killed.
Among the 7,000 survivors: a 10-year-old boy.
He was part of a choir inside the camp.
French pianist Elizabeth Sombart tells her story through a film shot in the heart of this extermination camp where she plays Beethoven on the deportees' reception platform.
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