Below are documentaries listed that are aligned with Social Centric goals, some are close, and others are not.  In order to authentically serve a better world, we must be willing to watch and learn how facts can be used as both tools and weapons.  Not only are you encouraged to watch and learn, we implore you to identify the core beliefs and intentions behind the "magician's tricks."  This enhances capacities of discernment and deeper intuition for auditing any and all media.

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”Blackness/Otherness, Indigenous Folk, Model Minority Myths, & People of Color”

• Hawaiian Elder, Mahalani Poe Poe, speaks of Hawaiian Kupuna and La'au Lapa'au.  These are stories of oneness:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxoS-hsbV_Q

• Hawaiian Elder, Hale Makua, shares ancestral scientific concepts that connect the entire planet.  Listen and consider:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wa_YQ_5vwrQ

• This is the song "Mother."  You will hear a group of Native women who call themselves Ulali chanting as images of Native girls and women flash on the screen.  Their chanting is full of life, strength, pain, struggle, and the sociospiritual power of women.  You are encouraged not just to listen and look, but also feel the story in the song:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdskIPwpsDI

• This is a parody and lots of truth with regards to "thanksgiving."  In this video, children act out a counter narrative depiction of interactions of Native people and European refugees in the Gregorian 1600s of an area now called Massachusetts:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gy-jhIPtB3g

• Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. speaks of the sociospiritual power that humans called black must access for true liberation.  He speaks of the arbitrary usage of the word "black" in the language of the English.  These are empowering words of Dr. King that are often absent from modern conversations about his legacy:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSwpvupINBk&t=2s

• This vid is not an endorsement of the news agency "Vice."  In this segment, the rich culture of the Gullah Geechee people is highlighted.  These are descendants of enslaved peoples from lands now called Africa who have maintained the rich heritage, spirituality, and survival skill to thrive in spite of colonial white violences and terrorism.  Watch and consider how people endure trauma:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqDTJogdWmA

• In this vid, the traditional dance and martial art of Capeoira is highlighted.  Learn about how people turned struggle into strength and trauma into triumph:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0o31LB-MGE

• This vid is not an endorsement of the media outlet "BuzzFeed."  Blue Grass, Country, Cumbia, Merengue, Pop or Top 40, Reggae, Samba, Salsa, and many more musical genres fit this story.  In this vid, you will see a brief explanation of the influence of humans called black people on the world of music.  Black peoples contributions to arts, religion, and sciences is often hijacked to reinforce colonial violences.  What would Rock and Heavy Metal be without Jimi Hendrix?  Do your research, the theft or sharing of black brilliance runs deep:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WftGDSnwvIE 

• This vid highlights the struggle of the Ainu people of Japan.  "Ainu" means "human". The Ainu people regard things useful to them or beyond their control as "kamuy"(gods). In daily life, they prayed to and performed various ceremonies for the gods. These gods include : "nature" gods, such as of fire, water, wind and thunder ; "animal" gods, such as of bears, foxes, spotted owls and gram-puses ; "plant" gods, such as of aconite, mush-room and mugwort ; "object" gods, such as of boats and pots ; and gods which protect houses, gods of mountains and gods of lakes. The word "Ainu" refers to the opposite of these gods.  While watching this, consider how these struggles expressed by the Ainu reflect struggles of colonized peoples in other parts of the world trying to maintain and survive modernity:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35UhRBLIqbo 

• In this video, stereotypes about East Asian men are investigated and discussed.  This series is about the diaspora of Asian and Asian American peoples navigating white dominance:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KF18Cqy53o

• In this video, the Tamil language of Southern Asia is investigated.  The subcontinent of India and the entire region of southern Asia is rich in a vast array of cultures, languages, and belief practices.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TqIW8_BEt0

• This is quick clip of an Assyrian church service.  These were the first churches of Christianity, they were in lands now called Lebanon, Syria, Israel/Palestine, Turkey, and Iraq.  This is the language of the Christ.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gefY6V7l51M

• This video briefly explains how Islam changed the world.  Europe was brought out of the "Dark Ages" by the Renaissance which was sparked by Islam brought by Moorish invasions.  We still use Arabic numerals to this day. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5XKjk0-hCo

• This vid is Koryaks (or Koriak) dance.  They are an indigenous people of Kamchatka Krai in the Russian Far East, who inhabit the coastlands of the Bering Sea to the south of the Anadyr basin and the country to the immediate north of the Kamchatka Peninsula, the southernmost limit of their range being Tigilsk, Russia.  Notice any similarities to some other people somewhere else?  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaW0NwcApXU

• In Noel Ignatiev's book "How the Irish Became White," the same concepts of this vid are explored in greater depth.  Whiteness was an arbitrary concept engineered to separate Europeans from their ethnic heritages and ethnocentric/national/religious grudges in order to consolidate a force of dominance that would maintain an economic class structure rooted in phenotype.  The Irish were exploited in Europe before colonization and exploited in the colony of the US as foot soldiers against humans considered non-white.  Consider this video:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmHct5IHxrA&t=118s

• This video highlights indigenous languages from around the world.  Consider how the dominance of European and Asiatic languages are erasing the relevance of languages of Earth's original peoples.  Ways of communicating with air, fire, land, water, and other species, including plants, are disappearing from the planet.  What impact will this have and what can be done?  Remember what the Lorax said, "I speak for the trees...":  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSdSHaUzDts

• This video is about ancient Nubia, a kingdom in what is now called Sudan.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEQP-q4zQ9A