+1 862 207 3288 To complete this writing assignment, you first need to watch two movies: 1) The Gods Must Be Crazy, and 2) The Joy Luck Club. Then you choose only one of them to write your paper on.
The theories you can possibly use to frame your paper are in the following. You only need to use one of them for your paper, not all of them.
1) The Kluckhohn and Strodtbeck, aka the K &S model;
2) Hofstede’s Cultural Dimensions Model;
3) Collier’s Identity Development Model;
4) Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis (language and culture);
5) Nonverbal Communication and Culture.
You can pick one of the following topics to focus your paper on. They include:
1) How cultural differences hinder intercultural communication and how individuals can overcome cultural differences with sincerity, mutual respect, and open communication. Either “Gods must be crazy” or “Joy Luck Club” is a good movie to use for this topic;
2) How young people growing up in immigrant families struggle with their cultural identities and how individuals become better and stronger through their identity negotiations with families. “The Joy Luck Club” is a great movie to use to support this this topic;
3) How a culture’s world view is reflected in the language of the culture and what one can learn about a new culture, such as the values and beliefs of the people, by looking into the language of the culture. “The Gods Must Be Crazy” is a great movie to discuss this issue. For example, due to different cultural values and beliefs, the Bushman’s language is very different from ours especially in terms of what words they have and use often and what words they do not have and do not use.
4) Nonverbal communication is crucial to successful intercultural communication. You can focus on how individual characters used non-verbals to effectively communicate with people of different cultures; and what non-verbals are universally understandable and what are more culturally specific, of which one needs to be mindful in an intercultural situation.
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