Culture

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To me, this words means that the different kind of people, the way of living and perspective of life are different although they maybe the same races. Especially culture is learned from young and they are shared from generation to generation. Therefore, I believed that every family or group has it own different culture.

Watched House Bunny this weekend, it was a comedy. However, from there I saw the culture different from each sorority group in the movie and how culture influences each other. The story goes by Shelley as a main character in the movie; she is living a carefree life until a rival gets her tossed out of the Playboy Mansion. With nowhere to go, fate delivers her to the sorority girls from Zeta Alpha Zeta. Unless they can sign a new pledge class, the seven socially clueless women will lose their house to the scheming girls of Phi Iota Mu. In order to accomplish their goal they need Shelley to teach them the ways of makeup and men at the same time. The combination leads all the girls to learn how to stop pretending and start being themselves.

In this movie, the group Phi Lota Mu has a unique culture that new students love to join them as culture can affects language and social organization. For Zeta Alpha Zeta they always are the unattractive group of girls which other people thinks that they are freak. However, in order to save their house they need to attract thirty girls to join their group and coincidentally Natalie (one of the members in Zeta) met Shelley who has been moved out of the Playboy mansion. Shelley had persuaded the seven clueless women to change their culture and style in order to suit everyone. As culture is dynamic, it is constantly changing as cultural contact increases; old ways of doing things change and people learn the new behaviors. Also, intercultural communications allow people to access to experience other cultures which can enrich one personal level. In this case, Shelley serves as a new culture to them as they communicated, they exchange culture and they decided to change their style to be more feministic and the Zeta girls also taught her that not all men like the appearance, they also need women who can talk with them.

In this movie, they also show the collectivist cultures too as they believe that it is right to subordinate personal goals for the good of others where their goal is to attract new students to join Zeta rather than individualism. They tried hard to change their styles and they win the group Phi Lota Mu but they slowly feel that they have change to another person like Phi Lota Mu which only judge people from their appearance and they blamed Shelley as the one who changed their group culture, however, they realized that Shelley and them should stop pretending and tried to be themselves. Personally, I feel that it was true that people should just be their selves and should not try to change to suit others.

I enjoyed watching this movie; it was so funny in some of the scenes and it really shown that between people, each of us has cultural differences. I feel that people group together as they shared the same culture. So don't you think that people that we alaways with actually have the same family background?However, we still can get along with people who are different from us, as we are human beings we can adapt to different cultures.