Post-colonialism

The representations of race and ethnicity in the 2012 London Olympics opening ceremony and the subsequent opinion piece of the Daily Mail website. The 2012 London Olympics ceremony portrayed themselves in a positive manner, due to the body language and movement. The music played was cheerful and complimented the atmosphere, and what the NHS was doing. The ceremony consisted of representations of the modern life in England, as the mother was a middle-aged lady and the father was black, they were portrayed as a happy family, whom were growing together. This shows how races/cultures are coming together as one. The step by step procedure of the family’s lifestyle, as they were growing up together and still in the same environment connotes the happiness of the family under one ground, showing racism doesn't exist and black and whites can live together. However, Fannon's theory goes against this as it suggests that you have to wear a mask in order to be happy, which suggests it was just an act of the family, they weren't really happy. Colonialism was a period of history in the 15th centuries when people declared that they own the land, showing the power they hold. Post-colonialism is what has been happening since 1950 empire. However, shortly after the Olympics opening ceremony the daily mail had published an article, a man named Rick Dewsbury had made this. The article portrayed the NHS to be racists, which is a negative outlook for the NHS. They didn't provide a boy with water, considering he was in the stages of dying. This shows the way the NHS don't consider somebody's health and actually aren't as caring as they may come across to, such as how they portrayed themselves within the Olympic ceremony.