MLO 3: Secondary Culture
3.1. Students describe concepts of culture and use that understanding in their comparison of the target culture with second culture.
3.2. Students will analyze and make connections between the perspectives, ways of thinking, behavioral practices, and cultural products of a second culture.
3.2. Students will analyze and make connections between the perspectives, ways of thinking, behavioral practices, and cultural products of a second culture.
MLO Reflective Narrative
For MLO 3, I took Span 325: Hispanic Cinema, in order to learn a second culture other than Japanese. The purpose was to compare and contrast from my own American culture as well as for Japanese. In this class we watched various kinds of movies highlighting different hispanic cultures and their background/history. We had to watch through the lenses of the different directors on different parts of history that impacted that country. Despite it being a film class, it definitely was not lacking in any cultural information as we learned of the background and studied the social norms of that country. During this class, I wrote about Guillermo Del Toro for my final paper and his film Pan's Labyrinth (2006) while making various parallels with the Francoist Regime as well as the oppression of that time. It opened my eyes to understanding that as I learned about Japanese culture in depth, that I need to see that all countries have their own complex histories that shape their people to who they are today.