{"id":75636,"date":"2012-12-22T13:18:44","date_gmt":"2012-12-22T21:18:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brownpundits.com\/?p=10176"},"modified":"2012-12-22T13:18:44","modified_gmt":"2012-12-22T21:18:44","slug":"cultural-differences-in-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/2012\/12\/22\/cultural-differences-in-film\/","title":{"rendered":"Cultural differences in film"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the issues which I occasionally bring up on this weblog is that despite all the talk about diversity and multiculturalism which most people air rhetorically, I live with diversity and multiculturalism because of my family background everyday (more honestly, whenever I have to engage with my parents). Though aspects such as food and religion are visible and obvious, sometimes it is the small things which are striking. Just today my mother-in-law stumbled upon some old photographs of her mother and uncle as infants. They were fraternal twins, born right at the end of World War I to Norwegian immigrants. Interestingly, my daughter bears a notable resemblance to her great-uncle, more so than to her own great-grandmother!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brownpundits.com\/2012\/12\/22\/cultural-differences-2\/11438_190710812983_5574912_n\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10177\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10177\" alt=\"11438_190710812983_5574912_n\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brownpundits.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/11438_190710812983_5574912_n.jpg\" width=\"190\" height=\"392\" \/><\/a>The peculiar aspect of this is that <b>there are no photographs of me at an equivalent age to serve as a &#8216;control&#8217; on this comparison.<\/b> Despite their parents being working-class immigrants (my daughter&#8217;s great-great-grandfather was a longshoreman from Norway) my mother-in-law still has nearly century old photographs of her mother and aunts and uncles. In contrast, my father was a college professor in 1970s Bangladesh, whose wife was the daughter of a medical doctor, and yet my parents and their relatives couldn&#8217;t be bothered to take and preserve photographs of me. The image on the left, from when I was three years old, is the earliest that is preserved. 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