Bhaji on the Beach Film Review

During the Christmas dinner, Amy finds herself ashamed of how different she is, though her parents view their culture as normal and think it makes their daughter unique. Despite the way her parents embrace their culture, Amy is unable to overlook how far she is from her standards of a normal American girl. With the news that her parents had invited over the minister’s family for Christmas eve dinner, Amy discovers a newfound embarrassment in her culture, brought on by her fear of how Robert, the minister’s son and the boy she loves, will see her culture. Amy begins to see things how she assumes Robert will view her culture, and becomes judgmental and uncomfortable with her relatives’ behavior. What once were her favorite foods suddenly seemed so gross that Amy couldn’t imagine why anyone would willingly eat them. Tan’s contrast of the different perspectives on the Christmas dinner reveals Amy’s feeling of shame and her indifference to the rest of her family’s pride in their culture.

The film I have chosen is “The Namesake” by Jhumpra Lahiri. A traditional Bengali Indian family, the Ganguli’s, are moving to New England and are trying to stay engulfed in their unique cultural identity. Ashoke Ganguli brings his new wife, Ashima, to a strange new world, leaving her lonely and confused of a culture outside of her own. Ashima needs to learn to love a man she does not know, to customize herself to a country she is unfamiliar with, and to hold true to her values in a culture foreign to her traditional beliefs. In this paper I will inform the reader of the Family structure, social class on gender as well as material culture and nonmaterial culture pertaining to the Ganguli’s and how they made a place in American society. I

Jesminder Bhamra, like the director, is British-Asian. Just like Director Chadha had refused to take traditional Punjabi dancing lessons and watch Bollywood films as a child, Jesminder unintentionally rebels when trying to integrate cultures. Jesminder’s traditional Sikh parents want her to be ‘good’ by completing university and marrying an Indian man. However, due to local

The movie I choose was Teen Beach Movie. The four main characters are Brady (Ross Lynch), MacKenzie (Mia Mitchell), Lela (Grace Phipps) and Tanner (Garrett Clayton) who is the funniest character in the movie. Brady and McKenzie were surfing, and then a storm appeared out of nowhere. A massive wave magically transported them to inside a classic 1960s beach party, on the set of a movie musical called Wet Side Story where surfers and bikers are rivals. They all find romance when they help put the movie back on track.

The classic Indian family and culture, is a major stereotype in this film. The Mother is a strict Indian woman who is seen as no fun and always follows tradition. She wants her daughters to follow her footsteps; marry young, be a good wife, and keep the tradition going. A great example of how the film portrays Indians is when the

She is not proud of her background because she is self-conscious of what the white members of her church will think. She is especially nervous about what the minister’s son, Robert, will think because she has a crush on him. Tan dreads the fact that her family and the minister’s family are having dinner together because her family do not use common household manners. Her mother ends up cooking prawns, tofu, and squid for dinner and the rest of her family licks their chopsticks and burp to show their satisfaction. The minister’s family cannot fully hide their discomfort. Tan is embarrassed the whole night because of her family’s customs being different from what is considered normal in the American

The main character is a girl named Usha, who was young when she moved to the United States. She grew up abiding to Bengali culture and lifestyle in Massachusetts. As she gradually matures to an adult and her own person, it's shown that Usha struggles to find a balance between the American culture that she's surrounded by and the Bengali culture that fits the mold of her family.

The heat wave of the summer of 1952, Djinda wiped her hands against her dress. Her mother would kill her, it was dirty and the pink had faded. Her feet were bare and she hurried across the burning sand toward the small house her father had built. They’d both compromised each of their cultures; her father could do whatever he wanted that involved his culture but as long as he built her mother a house. This had been before she was born; her mother had also wanted to go to the hospital for her birth but had compromised to let the women of her husband’s tribe in there with her – much to the doctor’s protests.

Bharathi Mukherjee’s later novels Jasmine(1989), The Holder of the World(1993) and Leave It to Me(1997) comprised her last creative phase conveniently termed here as the phase of immigration. By now she has travelled a long distance in terms of thematic perception and character portrayal. Beginning with an expatriate’s uprooted identity in the early 70’s, her creative faculty explored the transitional dilemma of characters in early 80’s, whose acculturation bids were occasionally thwarted by the complexity of cultural plurality in the adopted land. However, after the publication of The Middleman(1998), the process of cultural acclimatization appears to be complete and the characters betray the confidence of an immigrant, almost a naturalized citizen, in facing the challenges of human life.

In “A & P” we can see through John Updike’s description each feeling Sammy, a 19 year old, has which is working in a market store. He lives in a small town, having a quiet life and a future that was not offering many opportunities, but along with the arrival in store of the young barefoot girls which were wearing only bathing swims, he starts having all the mix feelings. The sexuality that promoted by the young girls outfit was not welcome in the setting of A&P, and against the policy store, even though the girls were focused only of what they come to buy, without any purpose of attracting other people’s attention. The girls’

In this essay, I will explain a cultural object from a scene from the movie Girls Trip, which was released on July 21, 2017. Girls Trip is about four women by the name of Ryan Pierce (Regina Hall), Sasha Franklin (Queen Latifah), Lisa Cooper (Jada Pinkett Smith), and Dina (Tiffany Radish), who have been friends for over 10 years, and are traveling to the annual Essence Festival in New Orleans, Louisiana. The cultural subject is Ryan Piece assistant Elizabeth Davelli, who uses terms and body language to define “blackness”. To reinforce and challenge the discourse that is taking place is people of color have to speak up about the discourse and inform people who are not of color, to show how people of color are offended by those actions.

For my final essay I plan to write about the filmmaker Mira Nair and how she explores the theme of tradition versus modernity shown through generations. In three of her films Monsoon Wedding, Mississippi Masala and The Namesake this theme is reoccurring. In these three films Nair uses the family to show the juxtaposition of tradition and modernity especially through the different generations presented. Tradition and modernity are addressed in a verity of ways in these different films. Specifically, in Monsoon Wedding Nair discusses arranged marriage versus a love marriage, to do so she uses two couples particularly but shows a range of couples from different generations. In Mississippi Masala Jay has had a rough past with Africans leading to

This photograph was taken on Waikiki Beach in Honolulu, Hawaii in 2015. It was taken during sunset and as the tide had gone out, revealing a wider coastline. The world-famous beach is manmade and since 1951, over 80,000 cubic meters of sand has been imported to replace sand lost through erosion from heavy rainfall, sea swells, wind and tropical storms.

The place where I feel most comfortable is a place where I am calm. A place that is peaceful in its own ways. It is the place to go to get away from all my troubles. It is the one place where I could sit forever, and never get tired of just staring into the deepest blue I have ever seen. It is the place where I can sit and think the best. A place where nothing matters but what is in that little moment. The one place capable of sending my senses into an overload. This place is the ocean.

Bharati Mukherjee is one of the accomplished diasporic writers. Her writing focuses mainly on women’s suppression, struggle to overcome the problems and attempt to attain identification. Bharati Mukherjee also depicts the cultural conflicts between the East and the West. When a person enters into a new culture from the old one, the conflict arises between the two cultures in the alien land. This paper explores how the female character, Jasmine is portrayed as protagonist in Bharati Mukherjee’s Jasmine. Bharati Mukherjee portrays Indian woman as protagonist in all her novels and the character takes brave decision to emigrate which is the first major step of heroism. The character is portrayed with the capable of facing adventures and creates own happiness and identity, unyielding by conventionality. In Jasmine (1989),