Film Analysis: The African Aussie Dads
Through the sociological theory of cultural variation, the differences in social behaviors that prevail within cultures justify the differences in one's perception of the ideals in terms of family and gender roles.For what one may consider the perfect functional family system may not grasp another cultures familial system.Different cultures share different perceptions of family such as;Siberia’s ideal kinship involving polygamy,meaning a man having more than one wife at a time.Aswell as India’s expectation that the extended family lives under one household. With these cultural differences of perceptions of the ideal family comes to the core the family, gender roles. Gender roles within cultures vary significantly, with the expectations of
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In this documentary one cultural difference is that between Africa and Australia traditionally in Africa the women of the community all share the care of the children however is Australia the mother and father each share the role of child rearing. The dads find this concept confusing, however a camp set up in Australia aims to connect the fathers and the children together in order to help African families adapt to fit their family life to the Australian circumstances whilst still maintaining traditional ties. As culture ‘is not an external passive influence on the families but families themselves serve as the primary agent for transferring these cultural values to their members ‘ (Chadda and Deb) . The implications based of the African Aussie Dads are that multicultural families try to adapt their family life to fit Australian circumstances but at the same time maintaining various traditional customs and beliefs,in which minorities such a subcultures
In this documentary one cultural difference is that between Africa and Australia traditionally in Africa the women of the community all share the care of the children however is Australia the mother and father each share the role of child rearing. The dads find this concept confusing, however a camp set up in Australia aims to connect the fathers and the children together in order to help African families adapt to fit their family life to the Australian circumstances whilst still maintaining traditional ties. As culture ‘is not an external passive influence on the families but families themselves serve as the primary agent for transferring these cultural values to their members ‘ (Chadda and Deb) . The implications based of the African Aussie Dads are that multicultural families try to adapt their family life to fit Australian circumstances but at the same time maintaining various traditional customs and beliefs,in which minorities such a subcultures