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God Grew Tired Of Us Analysis

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Culture is shared beliefs, values, attitudes, and behaviors that is passed on from generation to another. After watching the movie God Grew Tired of Us, the movie helped me better understand America’s culture. America’s culture is based on individualism. People are on their own and provide for themselves. Other people from different countries do not see American people as friendly. We celebrate holidays such as Christmas and thanksgiving for specific reasons. We celebrate those holidays as a time to get together with family and our loved ones to spend quality time with them and have a great time as a family. Many other countries and cultures do not celebrate these holidays. The fellow black people from the movie, they have a Sudanese culture …show more content…

They do not celebrate Christmas. America on the other hand, celebrates Christmas. Children believe in Santa clause because it enlightens them to be good, if you are not good Santa will not bring you presents this year, as American children believe. As mentioned by one of the lost boys, if a girl in Sudan were to cry in the streets, anyone would ask them what’s wrong and comfort them. But in America if a girl were to try in the streets, no one would stop by to comfort them, they would just go along with their business. Sudanese and American speak different languages. In general, Sudanese and American cultures are completely different. The lost boys are living in a country completely different from theirs. A country with different beliefs and traditions. The lost boys thought America and Africa shared the same cultures. What they are realizing as they are living in America, is that it is completely different. They have to adapt to a different world from theirs. The misperceptions of American people towards the lost boys affect them in many ways. They are discriminated for causing too much attention in grocery stores and for being very black, when it isn’t their intentions to cause attention in the grocery stores and it is not their fault they are

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