1. Strong connection in Miguel family: generation live together, worship the ancestors, care for
each other, working in the shoe store, bà vợ bị bỏ rơi (collectivism, long-term orientation,
femininity, restraint, uncertainty avoidance)
Miguel’s family: having a shoemaking business and prohibiting everyone to play music,
no one is against the law => strong family relationship
-Miguel’s grandmother emphasizes the significance of Day of the Dead => reflects
collectivist cultures. (picture only)
Migue and Hector: family first, even when Hector faces near-final-death, he only wants
to send Migue back to the living world.
a. First of all, I want to mention some dimnesions reagarding of in strong connections
Miguel’s family. From the beginning of the film, we have known that Miguel’s family
members live together, share every household duties and and even work together in
their home bussiness: shoemaking. Another oustanding point is the rule of Miguel’
s family where music is totally
prohibited for family’s sake and obviously except for Miguel everyone totally sticks
to the rule, which shows strong bonds in family relationships.
Next, related to Miguel’s family but in the the world of the dead, family members
also stand side by side in order to support each other, stay away from music and even
avoid Miguel from his musical dreams as the people in the living world.
Therefore, from those details, we reacognize that Miguel’s family strong bonds reflect
a collectivist culture which is Collectivism, according to Hostefe. b. Next, the way Miguel’
s family displays images of ancestors on the altar is also a
fundamental point to attach to Hostefe’s dimensions. They display images of
ancestors on the altar with an aim of
recalling present and future generations of their
ancestors and preserving family memories.
From this point, wecognize that they are in a long term orientation where savings and preservance dominance.
c. Even though Miguel’s family donnot agree with his musical ambition, somehow, they
still show love and sympathy towards him and are extremely worried when he is
absent from home for a long time; not to mention that they are willing to forgive
Miguel’s mistakes and support him.
Hector has made an enormous effort into coming back to his daughter even De Crus
persuades him to stay and he is also the one who has written a song for Coco to show his endless love.
Two points above prove feminity cultures where sensibilily, care are over power, determination or ambition.
d. Miguel family members are prohibited to places where there is music, working hard
everyday at the shoe store. This detail reflect restraint culture where
human nature and life enjoyment should be limited by social norms.
e. Miguel doesn’t dare to express his musical dreams because he is afraid of breaking
the family’s rules and destroying the family relationship. Moreover, great great
grandma is afraid of falling into the old path like her husband because she
always assumes that Hector has abandoned his family to follow his
musical dreams; therefore, she has made a rule of prohibiting following the music path.
Two details reveal high certain avoidance where people are like ly to worry about their future.