Musician in the streets of Paris
Photo: Valérie Doulevant
- The same pianist in Paris
Photo: Valérie Doulevant
A spectator in Paris
Photo: Valérie Doulevant
A Parisian florist fitting
Photo: Valérie Doulevant
Another curious d & rsquo; a Parisian street show
Photo: Valérie Doulevant
The habit does not make the monk
A Parisian association with a broad human vision by Marc Terrisse
The Look of the Other is a law association 1901, created in August 2012. Its vocation is to enhance the heritage of minorities in France, in order to change the way we look at each other, by giving pride of place to hybridizations and crossbreeding.
France has an invaluable gift: son multiculturalism centuries-old which allows it to shine worldwide. It should be better shared, because this is an undeniable asset for the future of this country.
The members and the sympathizers
Simple art lovers, of history or culture, knowledgeable professionals, anti-racist activists or others, the key word for their involvement lies solely in pleasure and conviction.
It’s mainly in the northeast of Paris, but also in other unfairly stigmatized Ile-de-France territories, that the association develops its projects. This is linked to local communities and in partnership with educational establishments, associations. Therefore, it participates in the local cultural development of the Paris agglomeration.
Beyond the appearences
Our vision of the other is conditioned by a collective unconscious and stereotypes, who die hard. Studies from many US universities show that in general, we judge the appearance, more than being. This association organizes exhibitions to try to “wring neck” clichés, developed by most media and by collective memory.
To show that, whatever our appearances and our origins, we are complex individuals, likely to escape any classification.”
Marc Terrisse
Doctor of History, Founding member of Regard de l'Autre
Racism, xenophobia and other discrimination by Valérie Doulevant
Long gone are the time for weddings within the same village…
Obvious that today, unlike there are hardly 50 years in France, mixed couples (from country to country, from continent to continent) are more and more numerous.
The Other Sometimes Attracts, because unknown and different.. Want to get to know him better and get closer. Difficult access, but so rewarding…
The Other Scares Sometimes, because unknown and different… Want to run away, to hate him and accuse him of all the current evils. Easy prey, but so loose…
However, people travel, discover and marvel at the Other.
Anyway, for some people…
A tel point, that they attach to a country different from their own, even to a person met, in this country or elsewhere.
An irreplaceable openness of mind
These couples are no stronger than the others: understanding and understanding men / women being what it is, whatever the origin of each. More, if they last, they acquire incredible strength and their children are the proof.
It is an opening to the World, an immediate understanding that we are all humans, sans race distinctive.
Bruno, French and living in France, original Aquitaine, rightly notice: ” There is no race in human beings; the only “race” existing, the one and only is the HUMAN RACE…”
Eulalie, French and living in France, Beninese of origin, always say, rightly and rightly whoever wants to hear that: “if you cut yourself, you have red blood!”
Valérie Doulevant
