When We Eat Soba Rhetorical Analysis

The first video is a short clip taken from a movie called Mr Baseball. There is this man who visits a coach’s house and are having lunch. I think assumption of similarities will explain the issues inside this video. We all eat food but we do not always have the same table manner. One issue is that we make sounds when we eat soba. This is normal in Japan but other foreign people will think this as a wrong behavior. Another issue that was found in this video is that American people do not eat soba. Soba is a traditional food in Japan so other foreign people might not eaten before. Thus, we need to use a chopstick to eat Soba but Americans were not used of using chopsticks. Furthermore, they were sitting in tatami. Japanese usually sit in tatami but Americans sits in a chair. They never sit in the floor. That is why he was sitting in a wrong way. There are more issues inside this video but all of them are connected with assumption of similarities. As a conclusion, I think Japanese should not eat Soba when the foreign people are visiting and that we always doesn’t have a same manner all around the world. We should be careful not to misunderstand them. …show more content…
The issue that are happening in here is that flowers doesn’t always have a same meaning to all other countries, it can have a different meaning. I think this issue is also related with assumption of similarities. A man inside this video might have given this white flowers to show his love or thanks. But in other countries that is not the meaning of white flowers. For example, in Japan we use white flowers in funeral or show sadness (as it said inside the video). So we provide white flowers for dead people or dead animals. Since the man didn’t know that, it ended up with so many white flowers around the bicycle. We need to understand how different countries show their feelings. Misunderstanding their feeling might lead to a big