Abstract Movie is the carrier of culture。 The film Gua Sha tells a story about Datong who experiences success and crusher of the American dream。 To a large extent, this reflects Chinese get a lot of troubles in foreign life。 However, these maladjustments are caused by the different cognitions。 This article mainly expounds culture differences in film Gua Sha from Conceptual Integration Theory。 First of all, this article combines the plots in the film to state Chinese and American cultural differences from legal attitude, medicine, hero views and parenting, and then analyses the causes of conflicts from Conceptual Integration Theory。 Finally, it gives some reasonable suggestions to reduce cultural conflicts and promote cultural integration。80952

Key words: conception integration theory; legal culture; different medicine; hero view; parenting

摘要电影是文化的载体。《刮痧》这部电影讲述了许大同在美国经历的美国梦的实现与破碎。这很大程度上反映了华人在国外生活的种种不适。而这些不适很大程度上是由于中西方不同的认知造成的。本文主要从概念整合理论角度阐述《刮痧》中所表现的中美方文化差异和冲突。首先，本文结合电影中的情节从法律态度，医学，英雄观，父母培育等方面阐述中美文化差异的表现，然后就这些差异从概念整合理论角度探讨冲突的根源。接着给出合理的建议来减少文化冲突促进全球文化融合。

毕业论文关键词：概念整合理论；法律文化；医学差异；英雄观；父母培育

Contents

1。 Introduction 1

2。 Literature Review 1

3。 Cultural Differences Reflected in Film Gua Sha 2

3。1 Different attitudes toward law 2

3。2 Different medicine 5

3。3 Different heroism 6

3。4 Different parenting 7

4。 Causes for These Cultural Differences 7

4。1 Attitudes analysis 7

4。2 Medicine analysis 10

4。3 Heroism analysis 11

4。4 Parenting analysis 12

5。 Conclusion 13

Works Cited 15

1。 Introduction

 Gua Sha is one of the most successful films that reflect Chinese and American cultural conflicts。 The film focuses on whether Datong abuses Dennis or not and mainly describes the living conditions of the Datong family in America。 At the beginning, their family is very happy and the game, designed by Datong, wins an award。 At the awards ceremony, Datong says excitedly: “by struggling, my American dream finally came true。”

However, happiness is broken。 Due to Dennis’s diarrhea, grandfather who can’t understand the English instruction uses skin scraping to relieve grandson’s pain。 Yet American people believe Dennis suffers from family violence because of his back’s bruise。 So they charge Datong with abusing children。 At last, thanks to boss visiting China, the misunderstanding is cleared。 Thus this paper will analyze the cultural differences in film Gua Sha

2。 Literature Review

Since the film Gua Sha was on, a lot of scholars have analyzed the causes of conflicts from different viewpoints。 By searching “the film Gua Sha” in Chinese Journal Full-text Database, I find there are forty-six related articles including eighteen articles from Core Journals, Chinese Social Sciences Citation Index and Science Citation Index。 All these articles analyze the film from different perspectives。 For example, according to Guo Xing, “cross-civilization studies which emphasize on heterogeneity between different cultures have become a worldwide academic。” (Guo 82) So he studies the film Gua Sha from heterogeneity。 As for Wang Yuxiao, she analyzes the film in this way: “the pursuit of face is not only universal but also relative。 And different cultural backgrounds decide different view of face。 Different view of face showing in the film is the embodiment of cultural conflict。” (Wang 90) So she studies the film from the view of face。 Liu Yuanzhi studies the film in such a way: “the film Gua Sha is full of ethics and human relationship。 The study of this film should under the different concept of consciousness and different value ideas。” (Liu 96) However, by searching “film Gua Sha and Conceptual Integration Theory” in CJFD, I find none of them use Conceptual Integration Theory to analyze the film。 So this paper will make a further analysis on the film from Conceptual Integration Theory to make up for the shortage in this area。论文网