Cultural Differences Paper
Cultural Differences Paper
Jessica Fuentes
COM 360
September 10, 2014
Mary Wardlaw
There are cultural differences within all the communities that make up the world, we are constantly surrounded and reminded of these other cultures. In this paper cultural differences will be discussed from the film “Why Did I Get Married?” which is an African-American movie about the hardships one goes through in marriage, friendships, and trust. This paper is going to give specific examples of Hall’s perspective of culture on the screen and Hofstede’s five dimensions that are reflected in a particular pattern. Examples of both verbal and non verbal intercultural communication and how they relate to particular intercultural communication theory, the concept of cultural patterns and which of these patterns are shown in the film, and the evaluation of cultural identity and cultural bias will all be discussed. As well as the verbal and non verbal communications within the characters of the film. Let's start with the film "Why Did I Get Married?" this film is about four couples who get together every year to a designated vacation spot and work on their marriages through a marriage retreat led by one of the Doctors within the couple. All of their marriages have some sort of trouble. Mike who is married to Sheila has invited a single female friend, Trina, to come along and unknowningly to everyone he is having an affair with this woman. Sheila is a plus sized woman and Mike is not as attractive to her as he was when they first got married, which is why he strayed from their marriage. The next couple is a man who was a football player, Marcus, made loads of money until an accident has rendered him unable to play the sport anymore. He invested in Angela’s (his wife) hair product business, which has become very successful. They are in constant arguing because Angela feels that Marcus is always cheating on her with the mother of his child, and she also resents
Jessica Fuentes
COM 360
September 10, 2014
Mary Wardlaw
There are cultural differences within all the communities that make up the world, we are constantly surrounded and reminded of these other cultures. In this paper cultural differences will be discussed from the film “Why Did I Get Married?” which is an African-American movie about the hardships one goes through in marriage, friendships, and trust. This paper is going to give specific examples of Hall’s perspective of culture on the screen and Hofstede’s five dimensions that are reflected in a particular pattern. Examples of both verbal and non verbal intercultural communication and how they relate to particular intercultural communication theory, the concept of cultural patterns and which of these patterns are shown in the film, and the evaluation of cultural identity and cultural bias will all be discussed. As well as the verbal and non verbal communications within the characters of the film. Let's start with the film "Why Did I Get Married?" this film is about four couples who get together every year to a designated vacation spot and work on their marriages through a marriage retreat led by one of the Doctors within the couple. All of their marriages have some sort of trouble. Mike who is married to Sheila has invited a single female friend, Trina, to come along and unknowningly to everyone he is having an affair with this woman. Sheila is a plus sized woman and Mike is not as attractive to her as he was when they first got married, which is why he strayed from their marriage. The next couple is a man who was a football player, Marcus, made loads of money until an accident has rendered him unable to play the sport anymore. He invested in Angela’s (his wife) hair product business, which has become very successful. They are in constant arguing because Angela feels that Marcus is always cheating on her with the mother of his child, and she also resents