1. What have you learned about Dinka culture?
I have learned that Dinka culture is a very different from any culture I have seen before. It is very different.
2. What markers from the film are representative of Dinka culture?
Markers include music, dance, food, clothing, and language.
3. Of American culture?
American culture includes music, fashion, food, partying, and language lingos/different pronunciations of words and phrases
4. What values do the Lost Boys hold?
3. Of American culture?
American culture includes music, fashion, food, partying, and language lingos/different pronunciations of words and phrases
4. What values do the Lost Boys hold?
They value education, community, family, faith, and hard work.
5. How do those values compare with your own?
I have the exact same values
6. What questions and fears do the Lost Boys have about life in the U.S.?
5. How do those values compare with your own?
I have the exact same values
6. What questions and fears do the Lost Boys have about life in the U.S.?
They have questions and fears related to technology, cultural practices, and food.
7. What questions and fears would you have if you were moving to a new place?
I would wonder if I would be able to fit in to the culture
8. What differences do you see between Dinka culture and American culture?
The Dinka and American cultures are very different. Dinka has more wholesome and important values than Americans
9. What are some of the challenges the Lost Boys encounter?
7. What questions and fears would you have if you were moving to a new place?
I would wonder if I would be able to fit in to the culture
8. What differences do you see between Dinka culture and American culture?
The Dinka and American cultures are very different. Dinka has more wholesome and important values than Americans
9. What are some of the challenges the Lost Boys encounter?
Challenges include learning a new culture, figuring out how to get around in the U.S., finding jobs, pursuing education, and making friends.
10. How do they adapt to life in the United States (think in terms of both assimilation and acculturation?
10. How do they adapt to life in the United States (think in terms of both assimilation and acculturation?
Assimilation: clothing, improvising English/adopting American slang, not holding hands in public or traveling in groups. Acculturation: eating traditional food, song, dance, attending reunions.
11. How do you think you would adapt to life in a new country?
I think that it would be very hard to adapt to a new country and try to make a new life
12. A benefit of this documentary lies in the opportunity to view our own (American) culture through the eyes of the Dinka. What aspects of our culture, which we may or may not take for granted, could potentially make immigrants feel marginalized or not a part of the American culture?
We take our freedom and economic largess for granted, while the Dinka have very little of both.
13. What scene(s) or ideas presented in the film stood out to you? Why
The scene that stood out to me was when the tall guy (I think his name is John) used his money to get his family across the ocean to the U.S.A.
14. Was there anything that surprised you as you watched the film? Detail one thing that you took away from the film study.
The one time the guy got arrested for running away and going insane. I thought that the law would be more leniant.
11. How do you think you would adapt to life in a new country?
I think that it would be very hard to adapt to a new country and try to make a new life
12. A benefit of this documentary lies in the opportunity to view our own (American) culture through the eyes of the Dinka. What aspects of our culture, which we may or may not take for granted, could potentially make immigrants feel marginalized or not a part of the American culture?
We take our freedom and economic largess for granted, while the Dinka have very little of both.
13. What scene(s) or ideas presented in the film stood out to you? Why
The scene that stood out to me was when the tall guy (I think his name is John) used his money to get his family across the ocean to the U.S.A.
14. Was there anything that surprised you as you watched the film? Detail one thing that you took away from the film study.
The one time the guy got arrested for running away and going insane. I thought that the law would be more leniant.
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