TRANS-CULTURAL ASSESSMENT

Multi-contextual and Trans-cultural assessment using MiFamilia.

Multi-contextual and Trans-cultural assessment using MiFamilia.

Introduction

The paradoxes of the current global environment is, firstly in the complexity and the acceleration due to globalization, and on the other hand, simultaneously, in the struggle to discover, preserve or find an identity, a place, a status, a brief social existence. Commencing from the mid-nineties, almost 18 million Mexican-Americans resided in U.S, which represented one of the rapidly increasing population clusters and accounted for the major part of the 27 million Latinos residing in U.S. It is projected that by the next generation, Mexican Americans will move from minority to majority status in a number of southwestern U.S. states (De Leon, 1983). This paper gives a Multi-contextual or Trans-cultural assessment of Mexican-American families using the movie “MiFamilia” by Gregory Nava.

Discussion

Racism, the multiplication of sects, the competition, and corruption are all phenomena of violence that exists as challenges. Everywhere they are the same anxieties, same depression, the same apathy, the same reflexes safe, the same distrust, the same illusions, the same prejudices from cultural clashes between member groups (San, 1987). Trans-cultural analysis concerns what is in both cultures and between cultures, it is also interested in what is beyond cultures, brings together human beings in the global adventure. One cannot separate the man and his thought, its historical context because thought and knowledge are progressive and moving forward. Beyond the aspects and intra-psychic relationships, individuals are registered in a cultural and social context that influence. Consideration of a historical scenario, social, cultural, next family history or individual, expands the belief that people face in their individual pathologies. As conceptualized by psychiatry as cultural syndromes delimited by its adherence to a Western culture-specific, within it relates to specific variables such as gender, age, social class, and ethnicity. Mi Familia is a historical review of such practices. Also, a cultural and critical analysis of hypotheses from trans-cultural psychiatric epidemiology attempted to explain geographically and culturally distant societies of the West and cultures between migrants and/or ethnically diverse in the Western societies.

Mi Familia:

My Family (Mi Familia) is the representation of a Mexican-American family residing in East Los Angeles. The movie highlighted the cohesion of the human experience. Though one specific family is the focus of the movie, but each issue that the characters tackled is common. As is evident in all high-quality "ethnic" motion films, the fundamental culture gives a resonant and rich background to stories competent of touching anybody, despite of upbringing or heritage. It is through these certain beliefs and emotions, cross racial lines and hopes that find its strength in Mi Familia.

This film, blockbuster in scale that is though not in length as the duration is merely more than a couple of hours, canvasses three generations and sixty years. Most of the events take place in three periods: the end of 1920s and beginning of 1930s, the end of 1950s, and the beginning of 1980s. The last era is the most detailed and longest, but precious background is offered ...