Cultural Differences in Hybridity: A Study of Asal Eswed (Black Honey) and New York Movie

الملخص

This research aims to identify cultural differences between Egypt and India on one hand and the American culture on the other. It does so through defining the concept of Hybridity (hybrid cultural identity) for the protagonists in both Khaled Marei’s Egyptian movie Asal Eswed (Black Honey) (2010) and Kabir Khan’s Indian, New York (2009). And thus, this research is going to analyze the previous movies through the post-colonial reading of the hybrid cultural identity according to both Homi Bhabha’s (1994) hybridity of imitation, mimicry, and ambivalent third space and Mikhail Bakhtin’s (1981) hybrid construction of language on one side. And, it does so in terms of Geert Hofstede’s (1994) cultural elements of symbols, rituals, values, heroes, and cultural myth on the other. It concludes that it’s only with hybridity; cultural differences emerge in a cultural negotiation process.

https://doi.org/10.24897/acn.64.68.289