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Intercultural Awareness: Manners at the table: The Joy Luck Club Scene

Intercultural Awareness

Level: Intermediate to high.
Skills: Students should have the vocabulary that would allow them to comment on this  sequence, which is an excerpt from the film  The Joy Luck Club
About the clip: The sequence, which is subtitled, shows the first encounter between a Chinese family and their girl's  soon-to-be American fiance.
You can download the clip by clicking  HERE  or  view it on line from the blog.



See related video: Table Manners across Cultures HERE

This video was provided by Uwe Pol as  part of a course  on Intercultural Awareness that I took at Norwich University in Summer 2011.

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