What cultural problems do the characters of the film “Looking for Alibrandi" experience?
“ Looking for Alibrandi”exposes problems associated with being Italians in Australia.The most significant problem is racism,which reveals Australians do not like Italians.The film also emerges religious and cultural differences.Another significant problem is migrants find hard in learning English,which affects Nona who initially felt isolated in Australia
The most significant racial problem,which affects Josie,is the racism she experienced at school.Carly Bishop made many cruel comments,such as calling Josie a “wog”.In the movie,racism was usually taken between Josie and Carly.The character of Josie had to deal with issues arising from prejudice of family life.The racial discrimination problems are still common in Australia.
Another problem is religion,which reveals culture differences between Australians and Italians.Expectation proved difficult for Josie and Kalia.Josie’s Nona,Katia had migrated to Australia such a long time ago,but she still celebrated many Italian traditional festivals,especially National Tomato Day,which was still most important in their family,but Josie called it “A Wog Day.” Josie’s Nona did not have any English speaking friends,she only had a lot of Italian friends and this was because British did not care about the Italian’s religion and culture.The film shows that culture and religion are important to people’s life and social circle.A glory box was another point of cultural differences,Italians used glory box which was a chest used for collecting items of clothings,by unmarried young women in anticipation of married life,but Australians did not use it.
Migrants found hard in learning English.Nona came to Australia a long time ago,but even many years later she still had problem with English.Most of the time she spoke Italian with her friends and family.When Nona first came to Australia,she felt lonely and isolated and did not feel she belonged to Australia.This is because her English was not good enough to communicate and Italian’s accent was hard for other people to understand.
In the last scene of Tomato Day,Josie did not rebel against it any more.“we are not cursed,we are blessed.” This sense shows Josie were happy to be an Australian with Italian background .
The characters of“Looking for Alibrandi” experienced cultural problems in the film.Racism is the most important one in the film,the problem of culture difference was also included and languages problem was shown in the movie.
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