The sixth of seven fascinating and thought-provoking films produced by viewers of the Tyne Tees Television news programme North East Tonight which present a range of thoughts, hopes, dreams and fears about moving into a new millennium. In this film written by Sabba Rashid from Washington School in Sunderland a montage of images featuring her wearing various outfits to show that fashion can be used by young people in the Northeast to help bring eastern and western cultures together in the new...

The sixth of seven fascinating and thought-provoking films produced by viewers of the Tyne Tees Television news programme North East Tonight which present a range of thoughts, hopes, dreams and fears about moving into a new millennium. In this film written by Sabba Rashid from Washington School in Sunderland a montage of images featuring her wearing various outfits to show that fashion can be used by young people in the Northeast to help bring eastern and western cultures together in the new millennium. A young South Asian woman with her hands covering her face removes them and smiles at the camera. As she states that she is Sabba and that she has two different cultures the image turns from positive to negative and back again. The film features a montage of Sabba wearing a variety of outfits both Western and South-Asian and often features her interlocking her fingers or holding them as if in pray. Over this Sabba talks about being part of both a Muslim and western culture and wanting to find peace between both of them, an acceptance of different cultures and races and an end to racism. A montage of still images featuring both South Asian and western faces intercut with those of race hate protests. As she mixes outfits she talks about how clothes can be used to bring cultures together and how they can also be used to create your own culture that isn’t dependent upon another. As she talks about definitely merging and coming together the film ends with Sabba covering her face with and her hands.