Save The Last Dance

Save the Last Dance is a beautiful movie of diversity, courage, confidence, fears and inter-racial diversities. Sara a ballet dancer felt her dreams crushed when her mother died in a car accident trying to get to Sara’s ballet audition. Not having her mother as a support system Sara decided to quit dancing. Sara had to leave her quiet suburban area in Chicago to live with her father in the southern ghetto part of Chicago. In this new journey, Sara deals with loss hopes, reconnection with her dad and inter-racial conflicts with peers at school. In the movie, we are present with several scenes that demonstrated miscommunication among Sara and her blacks friends. For instance the scene where Sara explains to the class about an African American author and his genre of writing turns into a heated argument. However, Derek a black student becomes offended that Sara describes the author in a narrator minded way. When arguing, Derek talked while moving his hand and he spoke and in a rude matter. The intercultural communication, was clashing between them too, because Derek wanted to defend the author and himself for all the violence that whites have done towards black. He judged Sara and …show more content…
I am Puerto Ricans and my parents married within their own ethnic groups. My parents would joking tell me to marry someone within my ethnic group because if I do not then I will be ruining “the race”. It is a very racist comment but again this idea of breeding within one owns ethic groups is the right thing to do. Diversity should be valued and treated with respect. Being open to other people’s ideas and cultures is important because we cannot closes ourselves. As humans, we need to communicate and actively listen to what others are telling us. I think it is important to recognize our own cultural biases we have against another groups of people and find ways to overcome these biases and treat everyone