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Racism is still a major issue in America today. These two recent films, "Do the Right Thing" by Spike Lee and "Two Towns of Jasper" by Whitney Dow and Marco Williams, were made to expose these truths about American society, to better educate the people of America, and help prevent situations such as these from taking place.
Both of these of these films, "Do the Right Thing" and "Two Towns of Jasper" relate to the theory of exclusive multiculturalism. Exclusive multiculturalism is when a group of people only teaches of their own culture to restore one's pride and self-esteem in their own culture. This in turn also creates a sense of ethnocentricity within the group. In the Spike Lee film "Do the Right Thing", every race has great pride in their own culture and shows it openly within their community of Bed-Sty, Brooklyn. Each group, the Italians, the blacks, the Hispanics, the Koreans and the white policemen, segregate themselves because they have all created their own......

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