《刮痧》中显现的中西文化差异英语.pptx

The differences between Chinese and Western culture reflected in the Gua Sha Treatment 14级合作英语二班020614036 020614040 Film Synopsis 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 abuse. 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 in Christmas eve, he has to climb a pipe to the ninth floor which his son lives. 2 Family concept Xu Datong not only does not blame his father because of this incident, but with his wife to conceal him.He lied in front of the judge scraping for his children, not his father. So his American friend didn’t understand him. His wife, Jianning explained: because he is Chinese . 3 Education Conflict In China, when children do something wrong, parents will scold and beat children as a punishment. Chinese family education is famous for strictness. In America, parents never hit their children for their mistakes. It will be more useful to encourage them to stand up again than to scold and beat them.And most importantly, it is illegal to beat children. 4 In Gua Sha, Datong’s son Denis hit his friend Kunlan’s son Paul, Datong asks Denis to apologize to Paul, but Denis refuses to say sorry to Paul, then Datong hit Denis on the face in front of the public. Friendship concept 5 Datong’s American friend testify Datong hitting the children. Datong very angry and quit his job. But Kunlan think he just tell the truth, so he is right. Americans think highly of the order is law, reason, feeling. while the Chinese are just the opposite. Morality In the movie, there was a debate about the Monkey King in the court. Monkey King represent justice in the hearts of the Chinese. In the m