Multiple Identities In The Film Outsourced

1. In the film, “Outsourced”, the main character Todd does have multiple identities that define him. Some of these identities are being a boss in his company in America, being American, being a son, being a boyfriend and being an ex-boyfriend. During the film his identities do begin to change in order for him to adapt to his life in India. Todd has to learn to be a boss in India and realize that their way of getting work done is very different from how work is done in America. Todd also realizes that had he grown up in India his role as a son would include taking care of and interacting with his parents, which he doesn’t do as much when he is home even though they are so close to him. Finally, he realizes that being Asha’s boyfriend has very …show more content…
His family instilled into him that achieving that success was more important over happiness or anything else in his life. After his early years, it is seen in the movie that his family played a very minimal in Todd’s life. This is extremely different than Asha’a relationship with her family and many Indian families. For Asha, family is everything in her world. Asha and other characters throughout the film still live with their parents and have a very hard time understanding how Todd doesn’t. The Indian characters see it as their responsibility to care for their parents because they are elder. In America, many people do not see it as their responsibility to care for their parents as they get older and will instead pay for their parents to go to a nursing home or some other facility. For Asha, her parents also get to decide who she is going to be in a relationship with and who she is going to marry. This is very different from American ideals of identity because Americans believe in the freedom to choose who one wants to date or …show more content…
In the film, “Brooklyn”, Eilis’s Irish culture has a negative perspective of the world. Since the Irish are perceived with a negative stigma, they have been forced to work to prove themselves. Communication is used to show this by the way the Irish characters talk to each other and how silent they can be at times. In the boarding house, the girls are not allowed to talk about politics, religion or their lovelives at the dinner table. For many of the girls this is difficult because they have become extremely immersed in the American culture where gossip is acceptable, but for Eilis this is not much different than the rules at home. Compared to Eilis, Tony’s use of language is extremely different. Tony talks a significant amount more than Eilis and it makes him feel uncomftorable becuase he feels that she should be doing most of the talking. He even questions her on why she is so silent and how it makes him feel that he isn’t doing a very good job of letting her express herself. Tony uses his language to express his identity openly and without question. He lets everyone know that he’s Italian, enjoys baseball and is very headstrong. With Eilis, she uses her language to express her identity only with those close to her and when she finds it to be the appropriate