Watching films from a different culture is a wonderful way to offer an insight and a better accepting into other cultures. Interoperating characters on the big screen can make the audience relate to a cretin individual and creates empathy and compassion. The Lost Boys of Sudan and God Grew Tired of Us, are both fantastic films that show how cultural identity and how differences make us all human. These films show how different cultures often clash because of diverse values but the differences can also bring them together. Both films cover how cretin individuals adjusted to a new cultural shock when moving to the United States. Both films do a tremendous job showing a contrast in our different cultures and they both have different ideas of how to show them.
A corrupted government that dominated the Sudan people during a civil war, this was the proposal to share the Sudan lives; which created the Lost Boys of Sudan and shortly after God Grew Tired of Us. The two films are very similar and have related characters it can be difficult to identify the differences. The major difference in the films are the tone in how they identity the cultural differences in the film. God Grew Tired of Us uses a softer nature when expressing the hardships of Sudan life, while Lost Boys of Sudan exaggerates the significance of the civil war and how it affected Sudan life.
Cultural Identity and Cultural differences
Geert Hofstede defined “culture” as the collective programming of the mind that distinguishes the members of one group or category of people from others.
National Culture is about the value differences between groups of nations and/or regions.
In God Grew Tired of Us it is enormously apparent the differences the Sudan people endure compared to Americans. Power distance, uncertainty avoidance, individualism versus collectivism, and masculinity versus femininity are just some examples of differences.
Organizational Culture is about differences in practices between organizations and/or parts within the same organization (sub-cultures). These differences are not based on values but strategic practices, which unlike national values can to some extent be monitored by an organizations management.
In Lost Boys of Sudan is easily associated with organizational cultural differences. Means-oriented versus goal-oriented, internally driven versus externally driven, local versus professional, and open system versus closed system are all noticeable in the film.
Outlines (subject to change)
1.I will identity the differences in national and organizational cultural difference highlighted in the films. Power distance and individualism versus collectivism are two major points; internally driven versus externally driven is another important fact.
2.I will review how both films identify unsettling resettlement from the civil, and how individual did it affect main characters.
3.I will connect ideas to Lost Boys of Sudan to the article Out of Africa: misrepresenting Sudan’s Lost Boys. I will cover how intensely focused they were on showing the negative light on cultural differences.
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