My Beautiful Women Analysis

“My Beautiful Women” Watching the video again and reading the class material on the subject provided a better understanding of the events. Seeing the effects of what globalism has had on collectivist culture specifically eastern influence. I can personally relate experiences of living in other cultures that take the similar view towards family and females. Being able to watch this again picking out the details of the people’s reactions to the senior female student Jane and how she is treated and is the subject of other’s gossip, but none of this matters to her care of her adopted daughter June. In class I was also watching my fellow student’s reactions to the movie also, how would our western ideas affect the view of Jane’s choice to keep June and her secret to herself. I think most students would not be surprised at people abandon children, it happens here also. I assume that people were surprised that it was done for the fact that it was a female, and it was better for Jane to keep the people’s attention on her rather than June. I the Thai culture, there is a lot of prestige associated with family and who you belong to, with here being abandoned she would be treated as next to nothing and her future bleak. What would Jane do if this took place before the use of the internet and globalization? Without the influence of globalization, this would have been a different story, with maybe Jane just walking by

In India’s history and culture, they used a cast system that influenced their society in a rigid manner. Watching the video, I picked up on the repetitive use of the idea of respecting every Indian no matter the cast or sex. O felt it was pursuing the idea of also maintaining their respect for their culture as they are becoming more influenced by a more individualized culture through