The film review of “scrapping”

Gua Sha is a movie about the differences between American and Chinese culture. 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.

There’re a lot of conflicts in this movie, such as the criteria of abusing children, the using languages between the different generations, the ways of teaching children. Of course, the main one is that Chinese culture was based on experience while western based on specific evidences.

In China, Gua Sha has been used as a treatment for thousands years, and many

people advocate it for their own experience. Just like many Ancient Chinese technique, we just know it is useful but we can’t explain it clearly. So to persuade westerner to believe it seems impossible. Then cultures conflict happens.

But we can’t directly blame westerner in this case. Not only Gua Sha, but also laugh therapy and so on are not accepted by westerner as normal treatments. It’s a responsible attitude for life. Because we know little about these treatments, we cannot make sure what is going to happen.

And how we should deal with it? Ancient Chinese have given us the answer: While in Rome, do as Rome dose. But we should not abandon our own culture, just like Gua Sha, a treatment that helps blood circulate better. So keep on Gua Sha and communication. May be someday there will be a Datong World.

第二篇：刮痧读后感英文版

On the culture shook in the firm of “the treatment”

——by Che yinan Culture shock is a long term psychological stress that all human beings experience when they move to a completely new cultural environment, especially when a person arrives in a new country where he is confronted with a new cultural environment. This term expresses the lack of direction, the feeling of not knowing what to do or how to do things in a new environment, and not knowing what is appropriate or inappropriate.

There are five causes of culture shock: culture stress, social alienation, financial matters, social class and poverty-wealth extremes and relationships and family consideration.

What?s more, there are many kinds of symptoms of culture shock. We can divide the symptoms of culture shock mentioned above into two aspects: physical and psychological. Some of the physical symptoms of culture shock include: too much sleep or too little sleep, eating too much or having no appetite, frequent minor illnesses, upset stomachaches or headaches, and a general feeling of uneasiness. Psychological symptoms are insomnia, fatigue, isolation and loneliness, disorientation, frustration, criticism of new country, depression, nervousness, self-doubt, irritability, anger, and emotional and intellectual withdrawal.

The feeling of culture shock generally sets in after the first few weeks of coming to a new place, though sometimes can take longer to surface. Culture shock likes a disease, has causes, symptoms and cures.

Culture shock is frequently described as a series of stages that a person gose through. There are five stages. In the beginning, people are usually excited about what they will experience in the new environment; this stage is called the honeymoon stage, as everything encountered is new and exciting. Soon they feel disappointed by what they actually experienced, this is the second stage called hostility stage. The third stage is the recovery stage; this is characterized by gaining some understanding of the new culture. The new arrivers may not feel as lost as before and start to have a feeling of direction. They are more familiar with the environment and want to identify themselves with it. At the fourth stage, people realize the new culture has good and bad things to offer. People start to define themselves and establish goals for living. The last stage is the biculturalism stage, at this stage people become able to cope comfortably in both home and new cultures. However, full adjustment can take years.

Generally speaking, culture shock can be alleviated, or minimized. What follows are some suggestions for enhancing the international business experiences by reducing clashes with the local culture. Learning throughout your stay. Get involved. Master simple tasks. Try to understand. Learn to live with ambiguity. Be empathetic. Be flexible and resourceful. Be humorous. These suggestions can help new arrivers go through such uncomfortable experience.

There are so much difference between the Chinese culture and the American culture. From the movie Gua sha we can know the different. And this movie shows us

about the culture shock. In Chinese culture, physical punishment is commonly used by Chinese family. They think this will help to growing up. But in western society is absolutely forbidden. Any abusing children were viewed as illegal conduct. Gua sha is a treatment in traditional oriental medicine in which a wooden board repeatedly slides across the patient?s acupuncture acupressure massage points. It works in similar principles like that of acupuncture acupressure massage. This method would inevitably leave bruise on the skin, and the story begins here, when the visiting grandpa who does not speak any English used this traditional practice to treat the grandson when both son and daughter-in-law were at work.

China is a country that has a long history. In long history, china forms her own unique ethics-paying attention to youth, and paying attention to ancestor worship. “He is a Chinese” so Da tong must tell a lie to protect his father. It doesn?t be understood by his boss because only those people who grow up in our land can truly understand its meaning. Besides ?hit you because of loving for you? also doesn?t be understood by Dennis, leading to endless conflict. In addition, the different medical theory also leads that Da tong are misunderstood. These are the cultural differences between East and West.

As to show respect to friends, Da tong xu punished his son physically in front of friend. But this was misinterpreted as violence by his foreign friends. This is misunderstanding in culture between East and West. How to avoid the tragedy of the story? We must strengthen the east-west cultural exchange and learning, and only with respect to different cultures and inclusive will it be possible to avoid the culture and values of conflict. Da tong was understood by everyone, family friend and fore, even through he has the best intentions, and he carried the responsibility quite heavily, making him do one wrong turn after another. The film Gua sha reflects the difference of value and culture views between western society and orient society. China society has been receiving impact of Confucianism for thousands years. Confucianism is known as paying regard to human relationship and ethic. Piety, courtesy and localism are most important ethic. But in western culture that is more emphasis on individualism, independence and equality. So conflicts in culture and value are unavoidable. These conflicts have shown in the story.

Different countries, different ethnic cultures are equal and no difference between high and low but a nation?s cultural awareness, cultural tolerance, is a very important matter. In this modern world, different cultures need to take in others? advantages, and we need to have the ability that cross-cultural communication. As to the reason, the invisible nature of one?s cultural beliefs also makes it difficult to impossible to explain yourself to others when questioned, but even though there are many differences between east and west, I believe that misunderstandings can be nullified with simple, two sided explanations when people are willing to listen patiently, just like the film?s end all misunderstandings are gone. This is my opinion about the culture shock.