Spanglish Movie Reflection
This paper examines the movie "Spanglish", which portrays the culture difference in a Mexican woman and a white woman. Some of the characters in the movie were Flor Moreno (Paz Vega) is a poor, Mexican single mother who is hired as the housekeeper for a rich American family in Los Angeles: John (Adam Sandler) and Deborah Clasky (Téa Leoni), their kids Bernice (Sarah Steele) and Georgie (Ian Hayland), and Deborah's alcoholic mother Evelyn Wright (Cloris Leachman). It looks at how "Spanglish" is a film rendering the positions of women with the countless problems they have in today's society including tribulations in racial discrimination, domesticity, poor wages, preteens and body image and low self-esteem. My reflections will compare the differences such as collectivist and individualistic culture, high-context and low-context, high-power distance and low-power distance, and masculine and feminine roles.
I would first off like to talk about how most Spanish cultures raised their children to become independent and collectivist. Individualistic are self assured and very independent people and collectivist emphasizes family and work group goals above individual needs or desires. They learn how to survive for them selves, and I feel as if this is a good way of life because in today generation most adults just go running to their parent when things get tough. The current generation is not use to being taught how to be independent. In the movie Spanglish Flor taught her daughter not to look for nothing from anybody because in the real world you have to work for things you want. So when Deborah was giving Flor daughter so many things she would get upset because it wasn’t how she didn’t want her daughter to get used to getting fancy items and also Flor pride was also getting the best of her because she couldn’t give those things to her daughter.