Yesterday we looked at how cross-cultural communication difficulties are created through different cultural perspectives.  Acknowledging these different perspectives is the first step.  The second step is understanding how these different perspectives, or different viewpoints, influence your communication.

Once you see how these different points of view can get in the way of your conversation, it is easier to side-step the hurdles.  This takes practice.  The key is to stay focused on what you want to get out of the conversation.  This is where you really begin to develop effective cross-cultural communication.

Yesterday we looked at Asian American movies to try to identify changes in perspectives.

Today let’s look at movies with another large ethnic community in the United States.

Try to identify the different cultural perspectives.  This time try to dig deeper into understanding the different perspectives.  Of course you can do this with any of the other movies in this series too.

Hispanic or Latino Movies

1. El Norte
2. Lone Star
3. Mi Familia
4. Stand and Deliver
5. The Milagro Beanfield War

Let me know if you have any other other movies to add to this list.

Here’s more on Culture Movies.

What do you think? Please share your thoughts and comments below.

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  Filed under: Cross-Cultural Communication

Cindy King

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  Tony · 27 February, 2009 · 

  It’s a great idea to look at art (in this case movies) to understand culture of a different ethnic community.

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    Cindy · 28 February, 2009 · 

    Yes, your comment reminded me of something.

    When I first came to France it took me a very long to understand their definition of “culture”. It is not at all the same as in other countries – and very hard to define in words. But their affinity to art is important in understanding their definition of culture. Their definition of “art” is also different than in other countries although easier to define – although I would not dare write it down. Better to get it from a real French person.

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