This slides is about movie analysis Outsourced. The analysis we are using are the five dimension of culture. Made by: Enggar Dwi Nugroho (16202241009) Citra Dewi Harmia (16202241011) Shilvia Intan Kusuma (16202241021) English Education Department Yogyakarta State University

1. Cross Cultural Understanding:
Movie Analysis
OUTSOURCED (2006)
Group 7:
Enggar Dwi Nugroho 16202241009
Citra Dewi Harmia 16202241011
Shilvia Intan Kusuma 16202241021

2. Background of the Movie
 Release date : September 12, 2006
 Written by : George Wing and John Jeffcoat
 This story tells about Todd Anderson has to
travel to India when his department is
outsourced.

3. Culture Shock Faced by Mr.
Todd
- Left hand vs Right hand
- Toilet’s differences
- Cheeseburger
- Asha is engaged already with another guy
- How the worker’s reaction after the are fired
- Holi Day in India

4. A. What Can We Learn From
this Movie?
based on 5 dimensions of culture, we analyze
India's and US's culture
1. Equality vs Hierarchy
we can see from this movie, how India's culture
perceive woman, is not as liberal as US did. In
the movie, Asha is planned to be married with
her parent’s choice, the man who is she didn't
even know well.

5. 2. Direct vs Indirect
US tend to have direct culture of conversation, in
this movie, Todd always assertively speak what
he thinks or what towards something.
Example: in the scene where Todd use his left
hand which is considered inappropriate, in India
the grandma doesn’t say it explicitly, so did the
grandpa.

6. 3. Individual vs Group
Orientation
In this film there is no clear distinction between
individuality and group orientation, because they
are all work in a team. How Mr. Todd work also
not really emphasized as individualist or not

7. Task vs Relationship
Rather than maintaining relationship with others,
Mr. Todd prefer to finishing his work and reach
the target as soon as possible, he don’t want to
build a relationship with the workers
Example: He try to increase the “call time
average” from 12 to 6, so he can return to
America

8. B. Cultural Barriers Faced by
the Character
1. Ethnocentrism
Mr. Todd thinks that American culture is better than
Indian in many ways. He underestimate the value
hold by Indians, and believe there is no other value
that is better than American’s value.
Example:
Mr. Todd force the trainees to speak English in
exactly American way rather than letting them use
their own accent

9. 2. Stereotype
Mr. Todd had actually judge that all Indians are dirty,
overpopulated and full of chaos, and such an under
developed country from the very first time without
any consideration of the real facts.
Example:
When he is informed that he is going to India, he
directly shows his rejection by hardly oppose his
boss’ decision

10. 3. Assuming similarity instead of difference
Mr. Todd asummed that people in India have similar
habit and way of living with people in US, which
actually not.
Example:
The first time he arrived at the guest house, he eat
with left hand (which is consider as dirty and
inappropiate in India) because he thinks there is no
difference between India and US in terms of eating.

11. What this Movie Say About
Another Culture
Outsourced tell us that every culture is always
unique, it has its own characteristics. It may be
100% different with our culture, but it should
not be a reason to degrading or underestimate
other culture

12. Summary
1. We can conclude that there are a lot of
differences between US and India’s culture.
India’s cultures are unique, uphold
collectiveness and politeness, lived by norms
and values, high context culture. While US’
culture tend to be more Individualistics,
pefectionist and ambitious in their job.

13. 2. While we stay in different country, it’s
important to learn about its culture first, so we
will get no obstacle on adapting in that country,
or at least we don’t face any cultural shock.
3. Being part of society where you’re staying is
also an important part of adapting in another
country. Try to accept it rather than reject its
culture and people.

14. 4.Not everyone is not what you thought they
are, every people have their own personality
and characteristic. Even though they live in
the same society and culture, not everybody
is the same.
5. When you live in Rome, you should act like
Roman. Or in this movie we can say that, if
we live in India, we should act like Indian. It
shows our respect toward the country and it’s
people.

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