Movie Clip

Ashoke Ganguli (born in Calcutta, India) moves to America to study at an American university in New York. He returns to India to get married and he and his wife return to New York. Shortly thereafter they become parents of a boy and a few years later a girl. The children of these immigrants are very much Americanized and do not see things the same way their parents do. The son, Gogol, falls in love with Maxine Ratliff and moves in with her family, which hurts his parents deeply.

In this particular scene, Gogol?s mother wants him to come home to visit, but he has plans with his US American girlfriend.

• Explain how culture influences relationships?between parents and children and boyfriend and girlfriend.
• Why do differences exist in the way different cultures view different relationships?
• List and explain the 3 dimensions of interpersonal relationships.

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