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Neighborhood Shock

In Barnlund's essay "Communication in a Global Village" he says, "Tomorrow we can expect to spend most of our lives in the company of neighbors who will speak in a different tongue, seek different values, move at a different pace, and interact according to a different script (61). In Spike Lee's "Do the Right Thing" he gives the viewer a glimpse of a community in which this is already taking place. He shows the struggle of people from different cultures trying to live side by side and the way they coexist in a shared environment. Each group has it's own way of dealing with the struggle and due to the lack of understanding and communication there arises conflict.
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or anger, that accompanies working in an alien society. One feels trapped in an absurd and indecipherable nightmare" (72). I also think this is a great example of what Barnlund refers to as "interpersonal understanding" (68), the desire of people to associate with others that share the same views as themselves and who express themselves in similar ways. I think the significance of this scene is the way it shows people still feeling isolated and alone in an unfamiliar culture even though there are others right next to them suffering from the same depression. It is the failure to communicate with those around them that keeps people feeling isolated and alone.
At one point in the movie a black teenager named Buggin' Out walks into Sal's pizza parlor and notices that there are not any pictures of African-Americans on the wall. As he argues with Sal to put up some pictures of blacks he says, "Rarely do I see any American-Italians eating in here, all I see is black folks. So since ...

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Added: 2/4/2006 02:48:00 AM
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