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Intercultural communication and conflicts

——the comments on Anna and the king Adapted by a novel and filmed in 1999, “Anna and the king” tells a story of an English widow going to Thailand with her son and teaching King’s sons English, based on the background in the middle of the 19th century.Except for love and war, this movie reflects intercultural communication and conflicts as a manifestation of culture shock in terms of human rights, concept of privacy and time.As for human rights, western people poe the value of equality;while eastern rank people by their gender and social state.When Anna met the prime minister of Thailand for the first time, she was called “sir” for standing in front of him, which violated Siam’s provision that girls must go down on their knees when meeting the primer.Although she had been advised to touch forehead to floor and bow down to the king, she insisted on greeting by protocol of her own custom, in most respectful way.When Anna saw a slave be chained outside, both physically and mentally painful, she decided to request king to release her.In her opinion, each human being has the right to enjoy full freedom, and slavery should never exist in a modern nation.King admired her humanism and courage and allowed her to stand when speaking to him.Prince Chulalongkorn also learned from his teacher and changed from being superior to respectful, self-righteous to a good listener, and selfish to indiscriminate love Ancient Siam’s polygamy, which is inhumane and deprives women of pursuing true love, also caused conflicts between Anna and king.When king’s new imperial concubine——Tatian was found cheating on king with her lover for being neglected by king, she was lashed in court and was going to be executed.Anna defended for her, which put king on a spot and lead to a tragic ending.Although Anna gets a strong point, it is not strong enough to confront with king’s dignity and feudal polygamy around the whole nation.Cultural conflicts in privacy are skillfully mentioned when Anna met primer for the first time.After primer asked a series of personal questions before getting straight to the point, Anna streed that her purpose there was to tutor king’s son, and personal questions are unneceary.In Siam, asking personal questions first is a gesture to be polite and friendly.However, westerners pursue individualism and value the importance of privacy, which is greatly different from collectivism advocated by most easterners.The difference in concept of time is another culture shock in this movie.After Anna came to Siam, she wasn’t called in until the third week, and her request for living outside palace wasn’t worked out immediately.Prime minister explained that everything has its own time in Siam and it will resolve itself in time.However, in Anna’s mind, it is a matter of principle whether one can keep his or her promise, not time.Not only does Anna bring new ideas to Siam, but the culture there has also changed her way of thinking.In the beginning of the movie, when Louis, Anna’s son, asked her why the king needed her when no one in Siam spoke any English, she answered, the ways the England, the ways the world.However, this sense of superiority faded gradually as she found England, the so called country of modernization and civilization, secretly planned to provoke a war between Siam and Burma for the sake of its own self-interest.As English, she chose to stand on the side of justice, not power.This movie sets a good example for intercultural exchange, where different values can conflict with each other, learn from each other, and finally reform to be a better one.