In the movie, What’s Eating Gilbert Grape, one of the main characters was played by a famous actor, Jonny Depp. He tends to play a lot of out of the norm characters; however in this movie he seemed to be a very normal person. With this being said, I find it very different and weird to see him so normal, since I’ve been used to him playing exotic characters in his more recent films.

            This film What’s Eating Gilbert Grape, was made in the year 1993, and directed by Lasse Hallstrom. Also in the film stars in both of the biggest actors in film industries now, who are Jonny Depp and Leonardo Dicaprio. In this film Jonny Depp plays the main character, which is Gilbert Grape and he holds the responsibility of taking care of his family after his dad’s death. He also has a brother who is mentally challenged (Leonardo) and a mother who is overly obsessed, which makes it even harder on him. Along the way he meets a girl who passes through their town and she shows him another way of life.

            In this movie, Gilbert takes care of his family after his father disappears and found dead. Gilbert has two sisters and two brothers; however one of the brothers got lucky and left the house. As the oldest son of the house he was responsible to take care of the family and the house that their father built. As if taking care of a family wasn’t hard enough, Gilbert’s family was even harder to take care of. Gilbert have a brother who is mentally challenged and was predicted that he wouldn’t live pass 10 years but he was turning 18 in the movie. He also had an overly obsessed mother who doesn’t do anything but sit at home and eat and cry over her husband leaving her. However, as he lives his life helping others and not himself he meets a beautiful girl who happens to pass through their town.

In my culture, when we eat, we usually use our hands to eat, and not just any hands, we use our right hands only. This is mainly a Middle Eastern culture, and if we see someone using a spoon or fork we will say there's something is wrong with that person. Another thing in my culture is when I have a guest over in my home I have to make them coffee or tea. If I do not make or offer them coffee or tea, they will think that I do not want them in my home. It also brings shame to me, if I don't offer or make coffee for my guests, because it means I don't respect them. When I make coffee for them, I'll have to stand by them until they are done drinking their coffee and when they are done I'll offer tea. When I offer tea to my guests, I also do the same thing; I will stand next to them until they are done. However, tea isn't as important as coffee in the Middle Eastern culture.

Every country have their own culture and traditions, my culture is very different from the American culture. since i have been here a lot of things have changed in my life. some of the changes in my life, I find nice and interesting for me. An example of some changes in my life is the type of music Listen to. back  in my home town in Saudi Arabia, i never listen to English music and i also did not like to listen to them. However, as I made friends in the U.S., they always play English music and soon i started to like English music. another example of the changes in my life is, before coming to america,  i just wore my traditional clothes, i never wore leans ans T-shirts. so when i came to here America i started to wear jeans and T-shirts and sport clothes. I find them comfortable because they are not not heavy and they also make you look nice.
Ever since I have taken this class, I have become aware that the police do not get in as much trouble if they kill someone without any reason. i find this not fair at all to the people in America. after being told about this class, i have noticed on the newspaper that a policeman killed someone and the government did not even judge him. they just asked him questions and the reason why he killed him and then set him free.

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Something the I learn from the cultural Identity was, how people has to adapt to other culture when  they emigrant to other country. first  People looks for better life opportunities getting out from home, and letting everything  back.when people needs to find a job or food in different country with different language.   People has a lot of problems to communicate and adapted  to this American style of life. In another hand they need to know the new language and adapt to the new American culture. second I learn the all different people has different type of culture and is always changing. i prefer be equal in different way.            

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     Actually I think Pop Culture is a good topic to study, and i have a strong interest of this topic.However, pop culture is a big topic to study and our teacher have help us to choose many ways to let us easily to understand this.So thank you for my teacher first. Also , in this first activity of the poster, i have learned a lot of things out of my country and i learned what is pop culture.

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Culture often linked to the customs and traditions. But a lot of cultures broke the barrier of customs and traditions and has evolved for the better. There are also a lot of cultures have changed after finding out online. Now people are interested in education and learn a lot of languages ​​is not, as is the case in the sixties and the eighties. Today I am studying in the United States and study American culture and this is a Very Good thing for me. I hope to get some culture from some classmates، and current progress intellectually for the better.

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     When I read the cultural identity unit, I knew many imformation about it. Begaining is very confusing, gradually understanding. Everything is interesting, but I most like the  Melt pot and Salad Bowl. In my opinion, China town, Mexico town, Japanese town, ect , they like jigsaw. They are entirety, but we also can divide many parts. Also, some people try to infuse into this culture, like Melt pot. However, what they want to be, they all stay on a land.

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As we known, Chinese cultural identity is food. However, I think that clothes fashion is the most cultural identity, so I am very interesting in fashion, such as clothes, decoration and shoes. In this project I learned that Yat-sen suit is mixing Chinese style and western style and this kind of suit is very pop nowadays. In sum, it is no doubt t that Chinese clothes fashion as a “melting pot”.

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When I finish this Culture Identity until, I get a lot of information about culture diversity and mainstream culture. First of all, I know why does the America is the Melt pot and Salad Bowl. Because many of different country in which many different ideas, cultures and ethnicities are put together in the USA. And also I know why does this book called 《 Mirror on America 》, because this book like mirror told us what’s the America Culture. Meanwhile, some of different cultures, races be admitted to the large country in the America. Moreover we are thought the poster project share more information about country culture, such as Chinese Culture, Mexico history and Saudi Arabia Culture. I’m really enjoying this activity that we share some knowledge rather than always reading book.