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Using the Internet for Intercultural Training: A Pilot Study of Web Sites in English for Children, Young Adults, Teachers and Trainers

The Internet has, especially for young people, an unequivocal role when it comes to establishing common cultural references. For the EUMC the rapid development of Internet websites has become a reminder of the powerful instrument the Internet can be, as well as the negative impact it is able to exercise.The racist and xenophobic websites have increased extraordinarily quickly and become an industry with the sale of racist music and other commodities. And those websites are designed to attract young people with propaganda that threatens all democratic values. At the same time the Internet can serve democracy, and strengthen the values on which our society is based.