【正文】 and also, probably no Americans have realized that Gua Sha is not a punishment or abuse but a way to heal people?s illness. Misconceptions from both sides has jointly led to the cultural conflicts, both sides need to 4 retrospect themselves and municate with each other, which in the movie we can hardly see. And the movie is the reflection of the reality, though a little unwilling to accept the fact, we have no choice but to face this serious problem: lack of understanding and interaction between different cultures. Scene Four: Datong?s father, finding it extremely difficult to live in a totally different environment and feeling a sense of loneliness, finally leaves for China. The life of an old person living in a foreign country is always a heated topic to be discussed. Today I?ll focus on the conflicts part: The grandfather, symbol of the Chinese traditional culture and the Chinese past, is confronted with modern America and the contemporary American mainstream culture. It is obvious that these two differ in lots of aspects, and of course so many differences are to cause cultural conflicts, in which the Datong?s father is too weak to fight back and have no choice but to return to its own culture. What has made a Chinese old man face those cultural conflicts? The reasons are as follows: living environment, language, worldview and values, etc. And in all those elements, I think the unfamiliarity of an unacquainted culture should be the most striking one. Conclusion Part: American Dream? So Hard to Achieve for a Chinese Immigrant Do you still remember the words said by Datong Xu at the start of the movie when he is addressing his prizewinning speech? In his speech he says that if he can keep working hard he will one day bee a real, successful American, American as he has thought of is a country full of opportunities and he is the lively example, and at last he says he loves America and that?s his American Dream. Sarcastically, the start of the movie turns out to be Datong?s peak, and then both his career and his life have bee worse and worse. It is certain that the family is reunited and things begin to bee better, but you can?t deny the fact that Datong?s American Dream is actually ruined and disillusioned, maybe through time he will soon “recover”, but the pain left by the tragic memory of this incident is sure to last long. In his famous novel The Great Gatsby Fitzgerald wrote the famous sentence: So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past (Fitzgerald, page 224). American Dream is far away from those immigrants, the famous Chinese writer Zhu Ziqing has once said: “but the happiness is theirs, I have nothing.” And this theory can also be adapted here: the American dream is American?s, they immigrants have nothing. Even Americans themselves can?t easily realize their dream, how about immigrants? And what has made this? Of course the difference of culture and value systems! To solve this problem, we still have a long way to go. The name Datong means great harmony, I guess it is not only the ultimate goal of the director but also the ultimate goal of people all around the world. It es as no surprise that it is of vital importance to realize this goal, but there still exist a great number of obstacles, especially in the aspect of culture and munication. What should we do? Just keep walking, keep fighting and trying hard to build bridges between different cultures and help them understand each other to fulfill our dreams. 5 If one day the great harmony arrives, the world will take on a new look and the earth will make a true global village. When a member of one culture produces a message for consumption by a member of another culture, intercultural munication occurs, which is a kind of munication between people whose cultural perceptions and symbol systems are distinctive enough to alter the munication event. People are alike and different. We carry our culture with us wherever we go, and it influences how we respond to the people we meet. The leading man in the movie Gua Sha Treatment has been in America for eight years as a new immigrant. At the beginning of this movie, the man, Datong addressed a speech in American way to show his love to America and American dream. It seemed that he has gained great success in the American mainstream society. Yet it was just an exaggeration of his success when used to make the parison with the ensuing events. Datong and his wife were born and raised in China, while their son was a Chinese American. They taught their son in American way and spoke English all the time. In the celebration, we can find Datong was praised and encouraged by his boss, who can be taken as a representative of the mainstream business. At the party, because of the quarrel between the two children, the son, Dennis was beaten by his father, which is just a very mon action in Chinese culture. The grandfather of Dennis also admitted the way of education. Because the other boy is the son of his boss, Datong gave his son a lesson to show his respect to the boss, who can not understand it at all. The boss was shocked and accepted it temporarily. In American culture, individual