The movie "The namesake" needs to be critically compared to the first four chapters of our text book "Experiencing Intercultural Communication, An Introduction" Sixth edition. This is an essay that looks at the characters and explores the core concept of the books chapter in relation to what we've been learning.
A review of the cinematic techniques or your opinion as to the merit of the work does not count and will not earn a passing grade. I want you to find specific instances of communication concepts and principles, and how they are at work with / in the characters. Ex.:
"When Charlie Brown had lunch with the red-haired girl….." works fine. I do not need "Charlie Brown had been secretly in love with the red haired girl and finally found his chance to say hello when she decided to sit down with him and share lunch at his lunch table…." In this instance, extra words will cut into your grade. This recounting has nothing to do with class concepts - it is simply a plot summary. A response tells me WHY characters behaved as they did based on your understanding of course principles. Summary/ review simply tells me what they did. Beware the difference! Please DO NOT include bibliographical citations when referring to concepts from the textbook in your papers or your posts. If you wish to equate a character moment as an instance of, say, surface-level culture – do JUST that. “Surface-level culture is seen when Charlie tries to buy her sandwich, something strictly forbidden in the girl’s culture…. BAM! Done. DO NOT include definitions for the terms you have learned – I will understand their usage. Nor do I wish to see “….as indicated on page 89 of Experiencing Intercultural Communication by Martin/Nakayama, 6E, @2015…..” 14 times in your paper. Seem absurd? It has and does happen – do not be the guilty party. There was the curious case in which a student used a movie title “The One-Hundred Foot Journey” 21 times throughout the paper. Yes, that constitutes 105 words, of which the student was only credit for 5 of. When correcting any written work, the first thing I do is cut all knowledge gathered from the internet or “other-sources” (meaning do not quote from that interesting text you have in Anthropology – that is not original thought, it is that of the anthropologist), biographical instances and terminology/definitions along with any other sort of redundancy or unnecessary wordiness. I then check the remaining word count. What is left is considered original thought and merits my attention and your grade.
The core concepts from the book include
Technological Imperative
Demographic Imperative
Ethical Imperative
Building Blocks- Culture, Communication, Context, Power
Stereotyping
Ethnocentrism- That ones own culture is superior
Prejudice- Negative attitude toward a group based on little or no experience
Discrimination- Behavior that results from stereotyping or prejudice, overt actions to exclude or avoid certain groups
Relationship of culture and communication is complex, culture influences communication, communication reinforces culture and communication is the way of resisting dominant culture
Different Types of Histories and how they influence our understanding of who we are
Family History
Cultural Group History
National History
Identities are multiple, created in spurts and influenced by society and created through communication
Identities are dynamic, meaning they can change and progress
Identify with multiple groups based on a number of different characteristics that form a group, gender, sex, age, schools, sports, socioeconomic class