IntroductionDuring this course, I had the opportunity to watch several documentaries that enlightened men on different perspectives of cultural diversity. These documentaries contained a variety of different methods used to examine different issues related to cultural diversity in America. Racism, sexism, ageism and social class were the main topics examined in these videos and documentaries. As part of the process, researchers creatively designed experiments that discovered how people instinctively respond when it is not obvious that they are being observed. Reports such as these must be carefully crafted and presented objectively. If critical steps are overlooked, this type of search tactic can easily be interpreted as intrusive, dishonest, biased, or unethical. This could ultimately defeat the purpose and distract the viewer from understanding, and could become counterproductive to the message the researcher is trying to convey. All the documentaries presented were necessary for us to gain a true consideration of the cultural diversity issues facing this country. Some documentaries contained the element of surprise by using hidden camera tactics. It's no secret that cameras have a tendency to change people's attitudes if they are aware that they are being filmed. While all the videos and documentaries had a great impact, the two documentaries that had the greatest impact on my learning were:1. “True Colors,” Diane Sawyer, ABC News, 19922. “Divided We Fall,” Valarie Kaur, New Moon, 2006 In this first mini-report, I will analyze these two documentaries and show why they have had the greatest impact on understanding cultural diversity . True Colors: Racial Discrimination in Every... Half of the Paper ...... these documentaries used hidden cameras in an attempt to provide viewers with an uncovered assessment of true American attitudes toward race. Valarie Kaur's documentary provided a more extreme example of hate, which involved killing innocent people based on their appearance in an act of so-called retaliation. Diane Sawyer's documentary demonstrated the daily discrimination that minorities face in some parts of this country. However, the issue that both authors put first is racism. Sawyer's documentary is set in the early 90's and Kaur's documentary shows the same kind of hate happening almost 10 years later. America has made progress in changing laws and defining socially acceptable boundaries of racism. But these videos show that we are still far from eliminating certain mentalities that generate this type of racial tension.