Princess And The Frog Cultural Differences
Cultural Differences
COM360
December 23, 2013
Cultural Differences
This paper will examine the differences in culture within the aspect of the film The Princess and the Frog. The cultural aspects of this film will be examined using Hall’s perspective of culture as a screen and Hofstede’s five dimensions. This paper will evaluate both cultural identity and culture bias in the film. It will explain the concept of cultural patterns and show what types of cultural patterns are present in the film. This paper will also illustrate examples of both verbal and nonverbal intercultural communication in the film. It will show how these relate to Hall’s theory of cultural high context or low context societies. The first aspect we will …show more content…
A cultural pattern is anything that is reflected within a specific groups practice such as religion, land use, economic activity, education, or attitude towards gender among other things. It is something that a group shares in common with the rest of the group. We will begin with the Prince in this film. His cultural pattern is to be educated in the best schools, to eat at the best restaurants and in general have the best of everything in life. He shares his culture with the elite in life a very small percentage who are born into a family of wealth and advantage never knowing what it is to either want or work. The Princess however was born into a working class life always wanting to better her, never knowing a life of ease, educated with the rest of the children in her area at a public school and sometimes going without. She has a culture that can improve themselves or not as they chose depending on their work ethic and luck. Last we have the animals who share the culture of the relaxed attitude believing that life will provide what they need and that they never really want anything but what they have with no desire to change the land, education, or anything else about their life. It is a seemingly fatalistic attitude believing they are born into, will live in and die within the same social setting. All of these three cultural patterns are very different and specific almost as if the writer chose the three most different cultural patterns available to show to the watcher. Next we look at examples of verbal and nonverbal interaction in the film and Hall and Hofstede’s
COM360
December 23, 2013
Cultural Differences
This paper will examine the differences in culture within the aspect of the film The Princess and the Frog. The cultural aspects of this film will be examined using Hall’s perspective of culture as a screen and Hofstede’s five dimensions. This paper will evaluate both cultural identity and culture bias in the film. It will explain the concept of cultural patterns and show what types of cultural patterns are present in the film. This paper will also illustrate examples of both verbal and nonverbal intercultural communication in the film. It will show how these relate to Hall’s theory of cultural high context or low context societies. The first aspect we will …show more content…
A cultural pattern is anything that is reflected within a specific groups practice such as religion, land use, economic activity, education, or attitude towards gender among other things. It is something that a group shares in common with the rest of the group. We will begin with the Prince in this film. His cultural pattern is to be educated in the best schools, to eat at the best restaurants and in general have the best of everything in life. He shares his culture with the elite in life a very small percentage who are born into a family of wealth and advantage never knowing what it is to either want or work. The Princess however was born into a working class life always wanting to better her, never knowing a life of ease, educated with the rest of the children in her area at a public school and sometimes going without. She has a culture that can improve themselves or not as they chose depending on their work ethic and luck. Last we have the animals who share the culture of the relaxed attitude believing that life will provide what they need and that they never really want anything but what they have with no desire to change the land, education, or anything else about their life. It is a seemingly fatalistic attitude believing they are born into, will live in and die within the same social setting. All of these three cultural patterns are very different and specific almost as if the writer chose the three most different cultural patterns available to show to the watcher. Next we look at examples of verbal and nonverbal interaction in the film and Hall and Hofstede’s