Phí Thị Thái Hà _ DOB: 13/07/1993 _ MSSV: 11032034
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Full name: Phí Thị Thái Hà Class: GTLVH-ENG2054 02 Title: Intercultural Reflection Intercultural Reflection This essay considers the popular concept of culture shock that occurs in a famous film named “The Karate Kid” (2010). According to Kalervo Oberg, culture shock is “precipitated by the anxiety that results from losing all our familiar signs and symbols of social intercourse”. It involves “a sense of confusion and uncertainty sometimes with feeling of anxiety that may affect people expossed to an alien culture”.[1] Another definition of culture shock is: “A feeling of uncertainty, confusion or anxiety that people experience when visiting, doing business in or living in a society that …show more content…
It means that, I will be able to improve personal and social interactions. Moreover, learning intercultural communication also help me prepare to deal with things which can be completely contrast with my habits. Therefore, I can reduce as much as possible the feeling of culture shock and ready to accustom new things. I guess that it will be very good to all of us if we quickly adapt ourselves to circumstances. To sum up, intercultural communication is one of the compulsory subjects for any language student. I can get more knowledge about the differences in how to communicate through both verbal and nonverbal. All of those help us to deepen awareness and improving ourselves as an individual in the context of globalization. One of the problems in intercultural communication that we may have to face is culture shock. And then I will show you this factor in a film named “The Karate kid”. “The Karate kid” (2010) – Culture shock and inestimable lessons The Karate Kid tells a story about 12-year-old boy Dre Parker with his single mother leave their home in Detroit to move to Beijing. In this new place, Dre faced to difficulities which caused mainly by cultural difference. Dre must suffer the misunderstanding because of language barriers, being refused by a father of the girl whom he interested in and being bullied by a group of schoolmates who know kungfu. After that, Dre was taught the real kungfu by Mr. Han. Dre participated in a kungfu competition with the hope to come over his fear of violence. In the end, he won, but above all, he gained the respect of everypeople in general and his competitors in particular. Although this film containing many human values, I just would like to mention aspects of cultural differences. We can see an African-American child finds himself suffering profound culture shock. And what leads to those miscommunication are language
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Full name: Phí Thị Thái Hà Class: GTLVH-ENG2054 02 Title: Intercultural Reflection Intercultural Reflection This essay considers the popular concept of culture shock that occurs in a famous film named “The Karate Kid” (2010). According to Kalervo Oberg, culture shock is “precipitated by the anxiety that results from losing all our familiar signs and symbols of social intercourse”. It involves “a sense of confusion and uncertainty sometimes with feeling of anxiety that may affect people expossed to an alien culture”.[1] Another definition of culture shock is: “A feeling of uncertainty, confusion or anxiety that people experience when visiting, doing business in or living in a society that …show more content…
It means that, I will be able to improve personal and social interactions. Moreover, learning intercultural communication also help me prepare to deal with things which can be completely contrast with my habits. Therefore, I can reduce as much as possible the feeling of culture shock and ready to accustom new things. I guess that it will be very good to all of us if we quickly adapt ourselves to circumstances. To sum up, intercultural communication is one of the compulsory subjects for any language student. I can get more knowledge about the differences in how to communicate through both verbal and nonverbal. All of those help us to deepen awareness and improving ourselves as an individual in the context of globalization. One of the problems in intercultural communication that we may have to face is culture shock. And then I will show you this factor in a film named “The Karate kid”. “The Karate kid” (2010) – Culture shock and inestimable lessons The Karate Kid tells a story about 12-year-old boy Dre Parker with his single mother leave their home in Detroit to move to Beijing. In this new place, Dre faced to difficulities which caused mainly by cultural difference. Dre must suffer the misunderstanding because of language barriers, being refused by a father of the girl whom he interested in and being bullied by a group of schoolmates who know kungfu. After that, Dre was taught the real kungfu by Mr. Han. Dre participated in a kungfu competition with the hope to come over his fear of violence. In the end, he won, but above all, he gained the respect of everypeople in general and his competitors in particular. Although this film containing many human values, I just would like to mention aspects of cultural differences. We can see an African-American child finds himself suffering profound culture shock. And what leads to those miscommunication are language