Alisha N. Mejia

Cinema as Multicultural Communication

AFRICAN AMERICAN, MOARI, JAPANESE

AFRICAN AMERICAN• AT FIRST:

• I AM NOT AFRICAN

• BEST FRIEND’S EXPERIENCE WITH FAMILY IN MARYLAND

• TALKING LIKE A “WHITE” PERSON

• ASSUMING SHE THOUGHT HERSELF AS “HIGHER”.

• HER EXPLAINATION OF BLACK LIVES MATTER IN CLASS.

AFRICAN AMERICAN• CATHOLIC SCHOOL VS. PUBLIC SCHOOL

• Bullying

• MORACCAN SUPERVISOR’S RACAIL EXPERIENCE

• “You work for me!”

AFRICAN AMERICAN• NOW:

• MALCOM X

• MUSLIM

• HIS BELIEFS VS MLK

• CHURCH COMMUNITY

• ORAL TRADITION

• UNITY

• UPLIFTING GATHERING

• SAME ISSUES TODAY

AFRICAN AMERICAN• Identity:

• Diverse hair textures and skin hues

• Negative

• Violent crime victimization rates

• Incarceration Rates

• Victims in criminal justice system

• More unemployment rates

AFRICAN AMERICAN• Political

• 90% Democrat (more loyal than any other ethnic group)

• Malcolm X

• Expected to follow his conservative views

• Conservative Traditionalist

• Survival Based Ideology of Islam.

AFRICAN AMERICAN

• Culture:

• Developed in the ‘Crucible’ of the New World.

• White majority outnumbered black people.

• Connection through sharing oppression as radicalized minority and language.

• 1650-1750 Search for identity.

• Mix of African traditions

• European practices (Christianity)

• Indian Influences

• Journey:

• 12 Years a Slave

• Nominated for nine Oscars

• Won three (including best movie)

• Pre-Civil War

• Solomon Northtup From New York

• Struggle for life and dignity

• 12th year meets Canadian abolitionist

• Severe beatings, lynching, and chopped off feet.

• TRUE STORY!

AFRICAN AMERICAN

“I never, in my life, felt more certain that I was doing right, than I do signing this paper. If my name ever goes into history it will be for this act, and my whole soul is in it.”

–Abraham Lincoln.

MAORI• AT FIRST:

• LOCATION:

• NEW ZEALAND

• HAKA

• ALL BLACKS (RUGBY TEAM)

• POLONIYSAIN

MAORI• CULTURE:

• Tribal Differences (Slight)

• Visiting Tribe had to follow tikanga

• Believe to have control over destiny

• Own laws

• Rangatira (Chief)

• Tohunga (Expert)

• Mokai (Slave)

MAORI

• Culture…

• Education to insure every person would be loyal and hardworking.

• Valued both males and females

• Land (whom you bow to)

• Never for personal gain

• Unions by arragement

• Elders cared for until death

• Mauri (life force)

• Sneeze of life

MAORI• Culture:

• Face tattoo

• Mana

• Haka

MAORI• Journey

• European Colonization

• New laws set

• Loss of millions of land

• Mana (honor) weakened

• Native Schools

• No Native Language (Illegal)

• Customs/traditions were being lost

• Trained to be Domestic Help

MAORI• Journey:

• Land was being taken away or sold

• Iwi would try to fight for them back

• Work or court

• Hapu was being almost non-existent

• Sub-tribes went back to main tribes

• Old spiritual was almost lost

• Only Maori who didn’t leave homeland saved some of the old ways.

MAORI• Whale Rider:

• Setting: Whangara (East Coast)

• Paikea

• Pai- 11 years old

• Koro-Grandfather

JAPANESE• AT FIRST:

• RICH CULTURE

• FOOD/TREATS

• ATTIRE

• Animation

JAPAN• Culture

• Land of the Rising Sun (Nippon)

• Isolated from foreign influence for 250 years.

• 1845 –Opened port and began to modernize and industrialize

JAPAN• Culture:

• Weddings

• Season-Spring & Fall

• Used to be arranged

• Gifts

• Groom- Hakama Pants (fidelity)

• Bride- Obi Kimono Sash (Virtue)

• Before a Shinto sanctuary

• San-san-kudo

• Three times three exchange of nuptial cups.

JAPAN • Wedding Cont.

• Sake between members of family

• Sakaki –sacred tree in worship gods to end main part of ceremony.

JAPAN• More Ceremonies & Celebrations:

• Tea Ceremony

• New Year Festival

• Bon Festival

• Seasonal Change

• Doll festival

• Childerns Day

JAPAN• Ceremony:

• Rites of Passage (Coming of Age)

• Three Steps:

• Separation- the child is removed from the presence of the mother. (Separation from former status)

• Transition- subjected to series of experience with intention of finding new status/state of being.

• Re-incorporation-reintegrated into new secure statue in the context of society, being new adult role.

JAPAN• Religion:

• 96% Buddist

• Shintoism

• Animistic Belief

• Native to Japan

• State Religion

• “The Way of the Gods”

JAPANESE• SPIRITED AWAY

• Chiriro (Sen)

• Spirits

• Bathhouse

• Greetings

FIN.

WORK CITIED:• Alberto Gonzalez, Alberto González, Marsha Houston, Victoria Chen. Our Voices:

Essays in Culture, Ethnic, and Communication.

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