Intercultural Communication In The Film Babble

The movie Babble involves the conflicts of social groups, issues of social identity, and intergroup communication. After watching this film it is easy to connect it to lessons learned in the textbook. The film displays the difficulties of cross cultural communication and the conflicts that can come with it. Babble’s plot starts with an incident in Morocco, when a tourist gets shot (Susan Jones played by Cate Blanchette) is shot while on a tour bus. This incident results in the connection of the other diverse characters; two young Moroccan farmers, a deaf Japanese teen and her father, and a Mexican nanny who takes her young charges across a border secretly. The film highlights these places and the different cultural styles, and characteristics …show more content…
American life and culture is termed as being superior among other countries, and can cause conflict between them. The assailant wasn’t highlighted because the standards of ethnocentrism live were termed as inferior and American injury was seen as being superior.
Enthnoctrism is also depicted in the movie when the couple shows how a language barrier adds a lot of stress to the situation. English is not the main language and is foreign to the locals, making them feel alone and isolated. Meanwhile the Moroccans were the ones who felt inferior because of the negative connotations the Americans gave off by speaking English. This can do with how pop culture, and stereotypes cause certain views about certain groups.
We see a large deal of multicultural conflicts just because of miscommunication, and culture value clashes. The lack of communication raised issues like terrorism and stereotyped a group of people. In fact the attitudes of two boys shown committing the act, does not translate to the actual morals or norms of the Moroccan population. It was the stupid of the father who handed them a rifle, not the actual roots of the Moroccan culture or people to