Transnationalism In The Film 'The Karate Kid'

New Transnationalism in the Modern World
Thus, the concept of ‘transnationalism’ represents ‘state’ and ‘nation’, the first referring to have different perspective, the second to be aware, adapt other nation and culture. The definition if “Transnationalism” is the integration of two or more nation, culture, idea, and different value. There are numerous sources that assist with the definition of transnationalism, such as the effect on student who study in different country, and the immigrant family who is assimilated and instantaneously lives a ‘double life’ and have dual identity. In this essay I will also discuss the fusion and the use of transnationalism element in the music and film industry.
At the first glance, the affect of the transnationalism on the student, who is staring to built their identity. It has some advantaging such as inheriting the value from the place of reception and the place of the origin to shape “who there are”. Transnationalism creates a bridging that connection culture, nation and value for the student to understand the modern world they live in today. Also create new “meaning of ‘home’ for international [student] migrants is changing and evolving, as new, globally oriented identities” (NAOM1) …show more content…
The film discover the story of single mother accepting a job in china, force his son to move with her, transnationalism paly an important role on how the connection if both American and chines culture integrated in the this small family. Also showing the advantage and disadvantage of become a modern translation. The advantage of benign transnationalism is integrating with other culture for example the son in film has integrated with karate culture to over come his struggle with fitting in with the Chines