Cultural Differences And Cultures In The Movie, Mcfarland, USA

In this paper, I am going to conduct a brief ethnography based on the movie, McFarland, USA. Also, I will focus finding some of the most crucial ways that enable youth to make a sincere relationship with their friends regardless of any cultural elements such as languages or different norms. First of all, I would like to consider any difficulties and situations that prohibit youth having a genuine friendship. It is fact that everyone is living the world having their own culture. In other words, when there are two different people groups from dissimilar cultural backgrounds, one group might have different values, perceptions, or perspective than another group. According to the book, the fact that our reality of the world is getting global is …show more content…
There was a time when Mr. White and his family moved to the place called McFarland where the community had different lifestyle than the White’s family used to. From his perspective, McFarland seemed more like a remote countryside or an isolated rural area. One of his teenage daughter Julie could not accommodate herself easily to its new surroundings neither. The way this area people dress up and the way how she is taught in school made her completely shocked and frustrated at the same time. The reason Julie felt stressful about new lifestyle was mainly because Julie had her own cultural preference assuming her experience works …show more content…
However, relationship is more than knowledge. The White’s family might have had such a good level of McFarland community’s values, beliefs, and their norms since the family lived among the people and further interacted with the community whether Julie and The White like it or not. One time, it was Julie’s birthday and Julie was transferred to an adult person. Many people including cross-country runners from Mr. White coach came to celebrate Julie’s birthday. At night, her father thanked for people’s participation and sincerely showed all his respect to people. Mr. White also said he wants to raise his two daughters like students’ parents did. This event definitely made Mr. White and the community share their feeling and Mr. White’s trusting smile melted others heart as well. Trust begets trust. Thus, knowing the significance of respectfulness and trustworthy become a matter of relationships having no relevance of cultural