AN ANALYSIS OF CULTURAL TYPES IN EAT PRAY LOVE MOVIE AND ITS CONTRIBUTION TO TEACHING CROSS CULTURAL UNDERSTANDING

Abstract

This study investigates analyze cultural types in Eat Pray Love movie and its contribution to teaching cross cultural understanding. The objectives of the research are: 1) To find out the cultural types found in Eat Pray Love movie. 2) To find out the contribution of cultural types on Eat Pray Love movie to teaching cross cultural understanding.The researcher used descriptive qualitative, that is a type of qualitative research. Eat Pray Love movie is a primary object in this final project. The techniques are watching the film several times to gain the comprehensive understanding about the subject, aanalyzing the data, collecting the data to classify it into categories of cultural types, then interpreting the data. In the process of analysis, the researcher found the cultural types in Eat Pray Love movie are language, art. Food or beverage, body language, social norm, physical characteristic, social structure and beliefs. As example the difference culture types Indonesian and Italian, when Italians are angry they will raise their tone of speech and bite their palms, indicating that they are very angry. In Indonesian culture, when someone gets angry, they will only raise the tone of his speech. If it is followed by a palm-biting gesture like Italian culture, it is considered strange. Based on the analysis, the writer found cultural types can be used to teaching cross cultural understanding with non-verbal communication including body language, eye contact, touch, body distance, paralanguage. Eat Pray Love movie was shown cultural types as an alternative learning material in cross cultural understanding, this study can be used as a source for teaching cross cultural understanding.