Innledning
In today’s society, there are numerous individuals from everywhere throughout the world with various cultural beliefs and insights, however different perspectives and subjects such as politeness, communication and marriage can occur to be a problem for people when visiting other countries.
The lack of knowledge between cultures and the challenging task to follow the norms and rules are factors that contribute to cultural problems.
As globalization turns out to be progressively significant people will likewise perceive the need to understand the fundamentals of various societies traditions, qualities and practices.
For instance, people may educate themselves to find out about various qualities and practices to avoid giving offence.
Today people are more conscious of other cultures social practises, for example how to welcome each other or how much eye contact is perceived as normal.
Utdrag
The American and Hmong cultures express exactly what Hofstede stated. Thao being a less dominant male in his family means he is being controlled by his grandmother, sister and mother and has no voice in that matter.
This shows that the traditional Hmong families value the men to be as helpful as the women and that one's persons gender might not be the most important.
As seen in the movie Thao does the housework and chores that are perceived as “women’s work” where his lack of masculinity is clearly portrayed.
On the other side, Sue has a more common cultural problem among Asian girls. Sue lives in a family where tradition is very preserved and needs to do what is expected of her.
Sue is portrayed as a traditional Hmong girl, but on the other hand, it seems like Sue wants to follow her own path while still being respected by her family.
A case of this in the movie would be where Walt discovers Sue hanging with a “street-boy” and getting into an altercation with some other people.
This is very uncommon for traditional Asian people as they are mostly perceived as quiet and with no ability to speak for themselves.
Sue’s interaction with the three young African American "thugs" is seen as a deviate from her expected behaviour.
The character Nyamalo that is found in “They Sold My Sister”, is expected to become a respectful woman that marries a man that is chosen by her parents.
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