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1、Value Differences Between China and America from The Film The Treatment(guasha)ContentsAcknowledgements.iAbstract (English).iiAbstract (Chinese).iii1 Introduction.12 The background of the film The Treatment (guasha).23 Value differences between China and America.2 3.1 Value difference in education.3
2、3.2 Value difference in traditional culture.43.3 Value difference in individual and collections.43.4 Value difference in relationships.53.5 Value difference in medicine.63.6 value difference in family.64 Cultural conflicts between China and America.75 Conclusion.76 Work Cited.91. IntroductionGua Sha
3、 is a movie about the value differences between American and Chinese. Xu datong is a video games designer in St. Louis. When his father visits from China, he performs Gua Sha (a Chinese traditional treatment) on his grandson, which leaves bright red marks on the skin and causes a lawsuit of child ab
4、use. In the court, Datong loses his mind so that finally he loses custody of his son. I think this scene is shocking and thought-provoking to most of the Chinese audiences. But the most impressing scene to me is the ending. Datong wants to see his son on Christmas Eve. He has to climb a pipe to the
5、ninth floor where his son lives for he is refused to come in the building from the door. I think the pipe is not only a pipe, but also a gap, a deep gap between American and 5000-year Chinese culture. He wants to climb over the gap but he wills never success, perhaps no Chinese people really could s
6、uccess. What surprises us in the film are not only because it suggested that the cultural differences between countries, a reminder of cultural introspection, but also its delicate touching story. Chinese films in general blur in the commercial value and cultural connotation of the time, it appears,
7、 indicates a combination of all points of Chinese. Over the Gua Sha is a treatment in traditional oriental medicine in which a wooden board repeatedly slides across the patients acupuncture acupressure massage points. It works in similar principles like that of acupuncture acupressure massage. This
8、method would inevitably leave bruise on the skin, and the story begins here, the visiting grandpa who does not speak any English uses this traditional practice to treat the grandson when both his son and daughter-in-law are at work. Sadly, in US, this is a story that repeats itself many times in the
9、 area where many oriental immigrants lives and all of these are due to simple misunderstanding between values. If an acupuncturist is trained in classical Chinese medicine, they will do this technique in their practice for pain, and for acute or chronic illness.Guasha is really a depressive movie. I
10、t depresses me much more than cultural crash. Cultural crash talks about the racial discrimination, a serious issues, while this talks about value shock, even more serious, maybe. As well, it shocks me more. Therere a lot of conflicts in this movie. Datong is the central character. His words, his ac
11、tions and his thought way, all represent the Chinese traditional values. He is the typical that the director chose to express the theme. All conflicts are focus on him. On him, we can see the Value Shock. 2. The background of the film The Treatment (guasha)Director Zheng Xiaolong, said: Different co
12、untries, different ethnic cultures are not good or bad points. Or no difference between high and low, but a nations cultural awareness and cultural tolerance, is a very important matter. An American audience says to me: no culture, no cultural heritage of the nation, is a disgrace. “The film from al
13、l angles of a persons integrity, human dignity, with excellent film concerns the criteria. Chaplin has consistently held that tragedy and comedy are actually inseparable from. And Gua Sha, In spite of the Hollywood-style happy ending comedy, but the drama has been a day filled with laughter. America
14、n culture in the elements of concerning, at this time is very pale, from the apartment security He will know as early as climbing, I let him get the phrase is interpreted, and Chine-ling for Quinlan do not understand the Datong Scrapping for the recognition of the father replies: because he is Chine
15、se,” which also underscores the need for China and the United States between the cultural differences. 3. Value differences between China and America Values are deeply held beliefs-usually based on cultural traditions, long-held family and religious teachings and long-lasting memories of personal ex
16、periences. Given their sources, peoples values seldom change, even when their more superficial desires, for instance, their interests, are modified. Asking someone to adjust his values is like asking him to alter his sense of reality, explain mediators Susan Carpenter and W.J.D. Kennedy. While this
17、can happen, it doesnt happen often or easily. For this reason, values usually cannot be negotiated, nor can they be changed through persuasive arguments.Value conflicts are even more difficult to deal with because the people in conflict may not only disagree about the substance of a dispute, but the
18、y will often disagree about the appropriate method of dispute resolution or dispute management as well. Given the lack of agreement on both process and substance, parties involved in value conflicts tend to turn to force-based conflict options more often than negotiation or persuasive approaches, be
19、cause force seems to be the only common language that both sides understand and honor.3.1. Value difference in education Da Tongs love for his son is tested severely when Da Tong tries to balance it against respect for his boss. When Da Tongs son hits his boss son, Da Tong insists on an apology that
20、 seems unnecessary and makes Da Tong look stubborn and uncaring. Da Tong gives his boy a light rap on the head when he refuses to apologize and the boy cries to his mother that the reason he hit his playmate was that the other boy calls Da Tong stupid. This is one of many examples of doing the wrong
21、 thing to protect his family. Da Tong tells his boss that hi is not stupid to do that but just want to give him face for in China it is very normal to educate his son or daughter when they refused to follow them through any ways even beating. However, his boss is so surprised and he think it is the
22、criteria of abusing children. The conflict happens on the using languages between the different generations, the ways of teaching children. Of course, the main one is Chinese traditional values and American ones. There are many differences between China and America on how to treat their children. In
23、 the movie, Datong beats his sons head because his son fights with his bosss son, and his son refuses to make apologize to that child, though that child abuses Dennis in advance. In China, children fight with each other though the parents regard it as the childrens nature, we always say that the chi
24、ld is not sensible. The children need the parents to conduct and foster, why does he sensible? Chinese often use the value system to guide their behavior, including the relationship between the family and the other things. In US, children have independent personality. What he or she does should be f
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