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【Abstract】 Paddington is a British family comedy movie produced by David Jonathan Heyman, an English film producer. Using Kluckhorns and Strodtbeck’s value theory to analyze this movie is a window to understanding the futures of Brutish culture.
【Key words】British Culture; Paddington; Kluckhorns and Strodtbeck’ s Orientation
This paper is related to a movie called Paddington, a British comedy film. And it consists of four parts.
Ⅰ. General overview of the Movie Paddington
A British geographer Montgomery Clyde encounters a species of bear inPeru. Instead of stuffing the bear, he teaches them to do marmalade, gives his red hats and welcomes them to London. The hat is labeled British Geography Association. Later the young bear arrives in London after a long journey. He gets a name called Paddington and has a home to live in. After twists and turns, Paddington knows that the name of explore but he was died. Millicent Clyde renders the bear unconsciousness and prepares to stuff him. In fact, she hates this kind of bear because of her father. Knowing Paddington in dilemma, all the family members try their best to save Paddington. Later, Being adopt by the Browns, Paddington lives a harmonious life with all the family members.
Ⅱ. Brief introduction to Kluckhorn, Kluckhohn and Strodtbeck’s Value Perspective
The Kluckhorns and Strodtbeck’s value perspective consists of five value orientations, human nature, relationship of humankind to nature, sense of time, activity and social relationship.
Human nature deals with peoples’ goodness and rationality including basically evil, mixture of good and evil and basically good. The relationship between humankind and nature consists of three categories including people subject to nature; people are in harmony with nature and people become the master of nature. The sense of time includes past-oriented, presented-oriented and future-oriented. Activity orientation refers to the way a culture views activity including being, being-in-becoming, and doing orientations. Social orientation refers to the way people perceive their relationships with other people including authoritarian orientation, group orientation and individualistic orientation(Samovar, Porter,
【Key words】British Culture; Paddington; Kluckhorns and Strodtbeck’ s Orientation
This paper is related to a movie called Paddington, a British comedy film. And it consists of four parts.
Ⅰ. General overview of the Movie Paddington
A British geographer Montgomery Clyde encounters a species of bear inPeru. Instead of stuffing the bear, he teaches them to do marmalade, gives his red hats and welcomes them to London. The hat is labeled British Geography Association. Later the young bear arrives in London after a long journey. He gets a name called Paddington and has a home to live in. After twists and turns, Paddington knows that the name of explore but he was died. Millicent Clyde renders the bear unconsciousness and prepares to stuff him. In fact, she hates this kind of bear because of her father. Knowing Paddington in dilemma, all the family members try their best to save Paddington. Later, Being adopt by the Browns, Paddington lives a harmonious life with all the family members.
Ⅱ. Brief introduction to Kluckhorn, Kluckhohn and Strodtbeck’s Value Perspective
The Kluckhorns and Strodtbeck’s value perspective consists of five value orientations, human nature, relationship of humankind to nature, sense of time, activity and social relationship.
Human nature deals with peoples’ goodness and rationality including basically evil, mixture of good and evil and basically good. The relationship between humankind and nature consists of three categories including people subject to nature; people are in harmony with nature and people become the master of nature. The sense of time includes past-oriented, presented-oriented and future-oriented. Activity orientation refers to the way a culture views activity including being, being-in-becoming, and doing orientations. Social orientation refers to the way people perceive their relationships with other people including authoritarian orientation, group orientation and individualistic orientation(Samovar, Porter,