Well, research and offshoring boundaries are certainly expanding.........Love them or hate them, u simply can't ignore them. Period.

All of the characters that Sarah Jones uses allow anyone who views the video to think about how we construct identity and character. Jones uses voice, body language, accents, and props to convey characters as diverse as a British woman and an old Jewish lady. Watching this video could be extremely useful for a multicultural education class. A teacher could use it to start a discussion on how we identify ourselves, as well as about stereotypes. What traits are "typical" of certain groups, and how can this be both a positive and a negative? What kind of groups, be they ethnic, religious, interest-based, or of another sort, do students identify with? Starting with this video would give a light-hearted introduction to a difficult topic, and perhaps allow students to access a challenging topic in a way that they can connect to personally but that also is non-threatening.

Discussion of what makes identity, how we choose to make our own identity and what is innate, and why all of this is important is challenging for students of any age, and one of the things that is needed in order to discuss this sort of thing is a safe space in which students can do some activities to understand themselves and then feel comfortable talking about them. One way to use this video presentation as an activity would be to have students keep track of which stereotypes (or identities) they laughed at, which they identified with, and why. (A pre-prepared worksheet would be useful for this process.) This would allow students to have first-hand examples of how people react to identity and identity building from their own ideas as the discussion goes forward. Ultimately, a video like Sarah Jones' is a great tool for a teacher of multi-cultural education, and teachers should not hesitate to use it.