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Question: Disucss about the Cultural Identity and Alienation in a Foreign Culture. Answer: Lost Boys of Sudan brings to light the astonishing tale in relation to two young men who were orphaned on account of the gruesome 20 year Civil War. It highlights the bitter experiences that one has to encounter when one has to leave their homeland and embark on an unknown journey. Their movement to America was marked by good fortune but at the same time was accompanied by cultural changes. The documentary brings to the fore the issue of migration and how it affects the lives of people who feel deserted and lost out (Constantino, 2017). Peter Dutt along with Santino Chuor survived attacks by lion and militia gunfire in order to finally reach a refugee camp in Kenya. Finally, they were chosen to move to America. According to me, while they were in America they were safe from any kind of physical danger but had to endure hardships on account of the mental friction that they experienced owing to cultural differences. My family had to move to America from that of Australia on account of economic reasons and the experiences that I had to encounter are still fresh in my mind. There were a lot of cultural differences and our family had to completely change our mental framework in order to assimilate in the new place. In the film, What Would It Look Like, the actor Cliff Curtis remarks that people are busy involving themselves and are trying to control the minds of other people. People have an intrinsic urge to dictate other people and control the thinking ability of the people. It has been seen through ages that the colonizer tries to control the motives and viewpoint of the colonized and tends to think that the ones who are in the position of power can completely change the personality of the one who is in the inferior position (Deng Marlowe, 2013). The person who is superior tend to think that they are the rightful owners who can treat the inferior ones like slaves. References: Constantino, R. (2017).Neocolonial identity and counter-consciousness: Essays on cultural decolonization. Routledge. Deng, S. A., Marlowe, J. M. (2013). Refugee resettlement and parenting in a different context.Journal of Immigrant Refugee Studies,11(4), 416-430.