Something missing in Place In Sun video
I’ve probably seen the Our Place In The Sun video at least 50 times, and it never fails to make me proud of Kamloops.
Last night, I saw it again during the civic dinner for the Communities in Bloom judges who were in town to look at our city. One of the people at our table made a very interesting observation about that video, something I had never picked up on before.
“It’s very . . . ” she said, pausing to find the right word . . . “white.”
Her point was that in the dozens of pictures in the video there’s almost no ethnic representation. Everybody is Caucasian.
I know for a fact this is completely unintentional. However, in a presentation designed to represent what Kamloops is all about, it is a fairly serious omission not to reflect the multi-cultural makeup of our city.
Fortunately, the video is updated from time to time, and this something that can easily be fixed.
ArmchairMayor.ca 
Thank-you for posting this. I, too, have no doubt that the omission was unintentional, but it is still disheartening as a woman of first nations descent to be so under-represented. It’s nice to read about someone who is examining their view of the world.
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According to the statistics I read recently either in your paper or in the weekly paper a full 20% of all people living in Kamloops have come from Asia. We definitely need to change the video to reflect that.
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