Six films, six winners, and six different views of democracy
In perhaps no other time in human history have there been so many different views of what the word democracy means. And that’s what makes our second Democracy Video Challenge so fascinating: over 700 people around the world submitted videos to the contest, answering the prompt “Democracy is...” And last week, the six winners of the contest -- selected by a panel of judges and then voted on by the YouTube community -- were honored at an awards ceremony with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in Washington, D.C.
The six winners came from all over the world: Juan Pablo Patiño is from Colombia, Yared Shumete is from Ethiopia, Anup Poudel is from Nepal, Joel Marsden is from Spain, Farbod Khoshtinat is from Iran, and Adhyatmika is from Indonesia. Click here for some footage from the winners meeting with Secretary Clinton, and here’s a playlist of their winning videos (which are also spotlighted on our homepage today):
What do you think democracy is? Join the discussion in the comments section of these videos.
Steve Grove, Head of News and Politics, recently watched “Democracy has a new challenge.”
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We are a republic not a democracy. The president should say that when talking to people, we are a represenative republic, which means we do not vote on every little thing, but elect people who are suppose to represent our interests, by voting for things that the people want, which they have not been doing, and the american people are about to fire all of them, both democrate and republicans, boy are they mad, in fact mad as hell!!!
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