La Mission 'And The Wedding Banquet'

The movies La Mission and The Wedding Banquet shows fear of queer contamination and also cultural genocide. There is a cultural difference between different countries in different parts of the world. These movies compare the cultural differences between Asian and Latino with Western culture. These movies not only show cultural differences but also show family tradition and problem with homosexuality with the non-westerners. The fear of not being able to continue family lines because the only son is gay and the fear of what society will think about the parents now is also projected by these movies. Also these movies show that all the blame for gayness is put on to the western culture which I will further elaborate in this paper. The pain of parents to accept the fact that their son is gay and that was because their son had been exposed to western culture for too long, …show more content…
As we saw in the movie The Wedding Banquet, Wai’s parents do not favor racial mixing and neither homosexuality. They wanted him to get married to a Chinese woman so that they could continue their pure race. “Race is not only a matter of politics, economics, or culture, but of all these “levels” of lived experience simultaneously” (Omi and Winant 96). Also they had the fear that the result of miscegenation might be something like tente en el aire (O’Crouley and Galvin 19) meaning up in the air. They will not know what to call the result of this miscegenation. There is another scene in the movie that supports this fear of miscegenation in Asian culture. The Chinese girl sent by Wai’s parents is afraid to tell her parents about her white boyfriend. She meets up with Wai even though she has a boyfriend may be because she does not want her parents to find out about her white boyfriend. This will be a big deal for her parents because she would be going outside of her culture and her