To start off with there are far too many cultural conflicts in this show for me to discuss with you all today, but to give you a quick summary. Nancy is a mother of 2 kids and has been fleeing from her house because she is not a normal mom she grows and sells marijuana for a living. She is now in a town in California extremely close to the border in Mexico.
In the time that her family has lived in this new town she has already gotten herself into many conflicts with different cultures. The one conflict I will be focusing on is her new found relationship with the drug lord of Mexico...who is also the mayor of Mexico. She met him in an accidental encounter in the underground drug trafficking tunnel and got into some trouble with him for being down there, but he was smitten with her and eventually they ended up dating. This relationship has not only caused conflict for Nancy but also for Esteban, the Mayor and drug lord, he has gone through a lot of trouble due to the confidentiality of both his jobs and his team is not to fond of Nancy being a part of all this, but he loves her so he is willing to risk it all for their relationship. Eventually Nancy becomes pregnant with Esteban's baby.
The major conflict issues are that the relationship with a drug lord is putting her family and her in danger with a lot of different people. Now she is pregnant with his child and the two very different families must combine.
The conflict styles that I see present here are conflict of interest and value conflict. At first Esteban wanted Nancy to get an abortion, due to the negative effects this child being born would have on his image as the mayor, but Nancy refused. Also Esteban has always been very controlling with Nancy telling her what do do when to do it and how to do it.
The way that they resolve their differences in the show ends up being quite humorous but Nancy refuses to abort the baby and ends up having it and Esteban finally gets excited about it but forces Nancy to be seeing a doctor that is Mexican and does not speak one word of English which Nancy feels very uncomfortable with so she packs up all of her things and runs away to an American doctor to have her baby. Esteban gets very angry with Nancy and forces her to have the baby at his house but yet again she runs back to the American hospital and has the baby. Because of the complications with being the Mayor Esteban's associate will not allow him to put his name on the birth certificate. Nancy ends up putting her closest friend on the birth certificate who turns out to be Jewish. Esteban shows up at Nancy's house where the baby is getting circumcised in Jewish style tradition. Esteban is now very angry. You will have to watch the show to see what happens next
The intercultural conflict in this show is endless and it would take me the entire day to tell you the rest of the conflicts that occur with this situation.
Question: If you were to be in an intercultural conflict with someone what would you do to resolve the conflict.
I think we would need to put our different cultural beliefs and conflicts behind us, and talk it out. I dont think it makes a different what culture we are, if I were in a conflict with a person of a different culture, talking is the best thing to do I think. It doesn't matter who I'm in a conflict with, this is the apporach I'd take. Talking out your conflict and differences, is by far the healthiest thing to do because talking keeps the violence away!
ReplyDeleteI think Katie has answered the question very well. If I was in an intercultural conflict, I think the first thing I would have to do is to be willing to talk about the issue with the other person(s). With that said, if I was in an intercultural conflict, I think I would let the other person dictate how to resolve the conflict. I would let he or she dictate because I am not going to be offended or annoyed with another person's preferences.
ReplyDeleteI also feel that I would let the other person take control of the situation. I'm not easily offended or angered and if they want something done a certain way that's just fine. I'm not one who likes to argue and if they really feel it's a big deal then they can handle the situation as they wish.
ReplyDeleteI’m with Cheryl in that I would let the other person take over unless the conflict was over something I was strongly opposed to. I would try to listen to the other person to understand their side of the issue and why they were fighting for their side of the argument.
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