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This is a 5 page paper discussing cross-cultural awareness through interviews and cinema. A review of an interview with South African Mark Mathabane and a review of the Spanish film “Talk to Her” by Pedro Almodovar allow readers to appreciate cross-cultural aspects which also help to broaden and define a person’s self-identity and approach to individuals of other cultural groups. Mathabane describes his perceptions of the similarities and differences between racial relations in South Africa and the U.S. which provides insight for readers in their own assessment of individuals from other cultural groups. Almodovar’s film, on the other hand, provides an inside glimpse into contemporary Spanish life and how some traditional stereotypes are maintained while others have been replaced through modern life.
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allow readers to appreciate cross-cultural aspects which also help to broaden and define a persons self-identity and approach to individuals of other cultural groups. Mathabane describes his perceptions of the
similarities and differences between racial relations in South Africa and the U.S. which provides insight for readers in their own assessment of individuals from other cultural groups. Almodovars film, on
the other hand, provides an inside glimpse into contemporary Spanish life and how some traditional stereotypes are maintained while others have been replaced through modern life.
Ida Musonis interview with Mark Mathabane, who was originally from the townships of South Africa, helps readers to realize not only the difficulties Mathabane had while living
in the apartheid-ridden townships before a tennis scholarship brought him to the U.S. in 1978, but also some of the basis of Mathabanes self-identity which the reader can compare to
his own. The interview of an individual outside of ones own environmental and cultural realm helps to expand cross-cultural knowledge and create a larger and more tolerant understanding of multiculturalism
(Musoni, 2001). Mathabanes discussed some of the similarities and differences in the racial attitudes in South Africa and the United States. While he was in South Africa, apartheid was
still evident and part of the legal system in which case provided some legal standing for peoples separatist attitudes. Since the end of apartheid however, many of the attitudes still
persisted despite the fact that they were no longer politically correct (Musoni, 2001). Mathabane has found that in this way, the U.S. and South Africa are similar in that long
after segregation is no longer tolerated in the U.S., many of the attitudes which were behind the original laws still exist. While largely people do not discriminate openly because it
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