Cross Cultural Understandimg

The movies that had been showed to us last week were good movies to see about the cultures of American teenagers. On both of the movies, we can see some differences of Indonesian’s cultures and American’s cultures. First of all, American teenagers are very expressive. They usually express their feeling freely as what they want. It’s rather different to the teenagers in Indonesia which most of them are not expressive persons. Another is that the teenagers in America are very individualists. They don’t really care about everything on their environment. In contrast, more of the teenagers in Indonesia think about their environment that’s why the teenagers in Indonesia don’t really expressive because they have to think more than twice whether what they did disturb the people around them or not. On both of the movies, the American teenagers also seemed have less of respect to older people which is very different to teenager in Indonesia which most of them still have lot of respect to the older people. Even though both of these movies showed more about the bad things about the American teenager, perhaps it didn’t really reflect about the whole teenagers there.