Cultural Change In The Movie 'Inside Out'

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In the movie Inside Out, Riley is forced to move to San Francisco from Minnesota. She has to leave her old lifestyle and must adapt to her new lifestyle. Her emotions (Anger, Sadness, Disgust, Fear and Joy) get in the way, she has a difficult time adjusting to the new house and school. When Joy and Sadness get lost in long-term memory, Fear, Disgust, and Anger have a difficult time filling Joy’s duties in order to make Riley can be happy. With the conflict of the emotions Riley is unable to feel anything and she decides she wants to go back to Minnesota, where she is happy. After the move Riley takes a turn for the worse. Her emotions, behavior, social interactions, and way of thinking all change. Her emotions have opinions on how she should …show more content…

There are many casual factors that can help explain Riley’s behavior such as culture, school, family, and biology. Riley experienced a culture shock when she moved to a different state. The first night when they got to San Francisco Riley suggested to get pizza for dinner. There was a pizza joint just down the road that she saw on the way to the new house but when she got there, there’s only one type of pizza on the menu, broccoli pizza. Which is radically different to what she is used to in Minnesota. Riley was extremely disgusted and soon realized that being in a new city, comes different ways of living. “Besides the conflicts that differing cultural standards create, children’s and adults’ own culture values may bias their perceptions of others... but it’s important to note that problems of bias and discrimination carry serious implications for evaluating youngsters’ behavior (Kauffman, 159). School also can have many effects on her behavior. When the teacher called on Riley to introduce herself to the class she started off well until she thought about Minnesota and how her life used to be and comparing it to what it will be like now. Riley had an emotional breakdown and became upset under pressure. She started to cry, ramble and lose her train of thought when she talked about the times she used to play hockey out on the pond every winter with her dad when the water froze.

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