ABSTRACT
The communication age puts young people in unprecedented contact with cultures other than their own. Whether images of this wider world are distorted or accurate, one outcome of the interaction is that the beholder is made to re-think his/her own culture in light of new information. The outcome can be to question one's identity or to reaffirm its separateness from the ‘other’. In conceptualizing identity, Stuart Hall points out that it is often based on difference and exclusion rather than being an entity in and of itself. For this reason, identity is a fluid conception — ‘becoming rather than being’. 1
