Cultural Conflicts In Grand Torino

The concept culture have some difficult meanings. One of them is culture as in music, preforming, theatre and so. The other meaning of it is culture as in Peoples Identity. It tells something about who you are, where you come from, and what you believe in, in this way, we can see that People

Culture is what defines a specific group of people. The customs, beliefs, arts, and social institutions of a race or specific group shape the perspective of a person in that group. Culture is what is known of a group of people. This how to differentiate different people from one another other than race and ethnicity.

As a consequence, he avoided the Hmong family. He even expressed distaste for them to their face, not wanting to learn about them or their culture. After much conflict, Walt was presented with the opportunity to help his neighbors and to open his mind to adapting to the inevitable cultural diversity in his town.

Culture is a set of ideals and values about life that are widely shared among people and that guide specific behaviors. Differences, as well as similarities, can be seen when comparing world cultures. We communicate with each other, we feed ourselves with food, and when we sleep we often dream. However, we speak different languages, eat different types of foods, and dream different ways. We call these cultural differences. What causes them is not always obvious to the ordinary person (Nancy). I feel culture is what really sets us apart from each other and what makes us unique as individuals and families.

The culture conflict theory is supported in the video in the aspect of racial segregation. This causes power and status struggles between the racial groups as they are struggling to survive their incarceration while attempting to maintain some form of self-worth.

The main issue throughout the movie is racism and the perspectives on different cultures. The movie is set in Los Angeles, a city with a cultural mix of every nationality. The movie starts out at

There are age related conflicts, cultural conflicts, religious conflicts and value based conflicts.  This movie is a film highlighting many cultural conflicts.  These conflicts continuously erupt in a working class Michigan neighborhood.  We will first examine a scene with religious cultural conflict. In the same scene we will see age based cultural conflict as well.  Next, we will examine a racial cultural conflict between the Hmong people and an American. After examining cultural conflicts, we will show two examples of popular culture in the film.  Then, we will provide the conflict management styles we would have employed to bring the same result as the current ending without the bloodshed and a general opinion of the film.

The groups in the film are not only ethnic groups but also groups involving occupations. There are two main ethnic groups that interact in the

Another issue in the movie was attitudes. All races have attitudes towards people that are not like their own, whether they are good or bad. Attitudes I believe are connected with experiences. What one experiences with another race can affect the way their attitude is towards them.

As opposed to Thao, who represented the men of Hmong , was very conforming and showed little masculinity. Like Walt, he begin to reflect Walt’s manliness throughout the movie. Despite their major differences, Walt and Thao were alike to a certain extent: Thao and Walt share the quality of caring for others, although they did not express it much, it was still present. The problem I recognized that Walt had with his Hmong neighbors appeared in the beginning of the movie and was that fact the Walt was a Korean War Veteran, because of this he seemed to have an automatic resentment or dislike against them. Walt did violate many rules or norms, at the barbeque he was confused and frustrated when Thao’s family members stared at him, he was later informed by Thao’s sister that it was rude to look people directly in the eyes in Hmong culture.

Racism, prejudice and stereotyping, as the main themes of the movie, control all the sub-stories that are somehow linked to each other. Moreover, as the stories go on and events develop, it becomes possible to see how characters start to have changes in their perspective and attitude towards each other, either in a good or a bad way. An incident which can demonstrate our thesis on racism and stereotyping and how it might change in just one moment which brings people closer could be shown as the conflict between the racist police officer and the African American woman who gets harassed by him, and whose life is saved by him on the next day. The first encounter of the woman and the officer resulted with the woman

Serving as a reference for just how extensive and significant the conflict has become, the film represents the opinions of children upon the matter, some who claim they even want to kill those on the opposite spectrum of the clash. In this way, I feel that it accurately contests the stereotypes most people have upon the subject, as it depicts how even children in all their innocence are being brought up harboring a bitter sense of resentment toward a people they have only ever heard of, but never truly gotten to know. It is clear throughout its entirety that the basis of the conflict is misunderstanding, and its perpetuators the children who learn to hate with a blind passion because they do not know any better. Upon actually hearing them talk so bitterly and seeing them cry, it is apparent just how poignantly and realistically the film captures the conflict as opposed to a monotonous relation of the facts with no background and no basis in which to refer one’s

culture. This movie clearly brings out the cultural clashes and conflicts between the high context Chinese culture and the low context American culture.

One of the major ICC themes in the movie is the conflict between individualism and collectivism. Although not explicitly expressed, it has a strong impact on the whole course of the movie. The 4 immigrant Chinese mothers, having spent their childhood in Mainland China, embodied a strong collectivistic value. This is a dominant value in Asian culture, especially that of China. In such society, the priority of a group far exceeds that of an individual,