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198 <strong>AEMI</strong> JOURNAL 2015 2016<br />
Contacto’s intention to show merely one<br />
side, or to keep Portuguese held back in<br />
the past. Contacto seems to have found<br />
that balance between a minority’s right<br />
to an attachment to its roots and the<br />
need to look at the future, a future that<br />
is always moving towards a more integrated<br />
life in Luxembourg. The proposed<br />
theoretical approach to this case<br />
study suggested, however, (Geiβler and<br />
Weber-Menges, 2009) that the same<br />
‘mediation effort’ is needed from the<br />
host country individuals, institutions,<br />
community and media. They should also<br />
pave the way to make minority communities<br />
known to the wider audience, the<br />
majority of the host society by giving<br />
them a place to be seen from the privileged<br />
perspective of the ‘bigger window’<br />
that mainstream media provides. By<br />
doing so they could prepare the ground<br />
for a more active participation of such<br />
communities in their respective host societies<br />
as the occasion of the recent June<br />
2015 referendum well illustrates.<br />
However, further in-depth research<br />
on both ethnic and mainstream media<br />
in this and other communities is necessary,<br />
including explorations of interdisciplinary<br />
approaches, in order to fully<br />
grasp what media can do to improve<br />
the integration process of minorities.<br />
Particularly, this research is necessary to<br />
work against the spreading of ignorance,<br />
invisibility and simplification that some<br />
mainstream media promote whenever<br />
diversity issues are tackled.<br />
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