#Inglorious Bastards

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Inglourious Batman

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[goblins-and-gloves]

Inglorious Bastards is a Hanukkah movie change my mind

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Brother business is a boomin!

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Inglorious Bastards (2009)

[nihongotravel]

Non-verbal Communication

It is important to understand a lot about nonverbal communication within a culture because you don’t want to come off as ignorant at best or cruel at worst. There are just certain things you do when visiting or interacting with another culture and making an effort to recognize and attempt these interactions shows respect, which is what is a basic ticket to the gateway of any culture. If you don’t respect a certain society at least somewhat where you are a stranger in a strange land, how could you expect them to respect you and yours? 

Some basic obstacles to understanding non-verbal communications within a culture is that a lot of it is learned and instilled in you from a young age, there are certain nuances that just won’t come out unless you’ve been in it long enough. It can also be a matter of not being lucky enough to find a polite enough person to teach you said tricks of the trade, but could be remedied if you approach a person or culture respectfully enough to earn said lesson. An extreme example of the consequences of such nonverbal cues is in Quentin Tarantino’s hit film Inglorious Bastards where, when going undercover as a spy in a Nazi bar, the operative used the American sign for 3, starting with his index, instead of the European one, using his thumb, for ordering drinks, tipping off the Nazi’s and inciting a shootout. Now, again, this is both a fictional and extreme example, and most social taboos might earn you a glare rather than a bullet, but it’s still important to note that even if you may not intend it, not abiding by or knowing nonverbal cues can and will make you stick out like a very sore and sometimes very unsightly thumb (unless, apparently, if you are an undercover spy in Europe during WWII. In which case, use the thumb!)

For nonverbal communications I use a lot of gestures in my speaking to get the point across. It is sometimes hard to get people’s attention, but if I add exaggerated hand movements or gestures, not only does it get through to people that I’m trying to communicate with them, but also helps to exemplify some of the points or explanations I’m making. In an American society, it is seen as very natural to be loud and boisterous and sort of kick up a fuss when talking, we are known as attention hogs after all, but in the country I’m studying, Japan, that may not go down as well. Perhaps it won’t be as big a problem because they are polite listeners, and I won’t even need that (at least, that’s what I’m hoping.) Japan is a society that is heavily drenched in conformity and not standing out, so being loud in public, or using superfluous gestures might come off as strange and off-putting to those I am trying to communicate with. Touch is another one that is different for us. It depends on what part of the U.S. you are from or from the family you were raised in, but touch is a big part of our culture. Even with strangers, handshakes and hugs and even playful shoves flow freely through a variety of age gaps. In Japan is it typically seen as very rude to act so familiar with people you don’t, or barely, know, and it is especially taboo depending on your age or social/professional relationship to them. For example, you would typically bow to someone who you don’t typically know so well to be polite, and this is taken far more seriously depending on the age gap to stick with the respecting your elders schtick. Supposedly this also stems from the old Samurai idea that as you bow, you are showing your neck to someone in sort of a sign of trust that they won’t use the opportunity to cut off your head with a sword. It came about somewhere in the 5 th and 6th century along with Buddhism and was used to pay respect to shrines as well, and though we don’t really have to worry so much about beheadings in this day and age, it was still adopted and passed down through today. 

Though Japanese culture has an emphasis on personal space and quiet tendencies, I do think I would fit in quite well. In America, I feel the need to preform to get by, and as I grew older I grew into it. But I remember when I was younger and had an interest in this culture, thinking that I wish I had been born there instead, because of how well it fit in with my natural tendencies. Here there is a pressure to push my way through or I would get trampled on or drowned out, but in Japan it seems drowning looks more like swimming in a sea of other people who respect your space and privacy. Not that either culture is particularly good or bad because of this, as I have obviously learned to get by, only that these societies seem to value different things. When my friend hosted some Japanese exchange students back in high school, I was met with such a dichotic predicament. Earlier in the stay I had hugged another girl who gifted me a fan for liking and commenting her art all the way back when I visited them for two weeks in Japan, I could feel her wiggle out of it all confused! Afterward I felt bad, as if I had offended her. But later in the trip when we said goodbye to the girls we were actually hosting, we all hugged each other and cried! It just goes to show that sometimes it’s a matter of context, circumstance, and people! 

Japan is also a polychronic culture, which means that social context is everything. In Japan, they are hard workers that aren’t much known for their time off. This is because it can be hard for them to see work in respect to actual time, rather, if they seem to slack in a certain area or if they aren’t there to offer support towards a commitment they deem as theirs, then other people around them suffer as a consequence. Their social commitments are what reign supreme, especially in their work culture, as there is barely a separation from their work like and their personal life. Remember what I said earlier about Japan being community based, as it really comes into play here. Supposedly this hierarchy stems all the way from the Confucius system and their traditions. As a result, it is very important to value punctuality and social obligations when dealing with their culture as to not come off as insensitive, or like you don’t care about the success or wellbeing of those around you

[ratty9boy]

give sad headcanons i'm going thru it

Aren't we all? Anyways whit pleasure here you go:

Aldo years after the war ended still wears a golden necklace whit a little star of David that Wicki gave him once as a gift, he can't part ways whit it seeing as it's the only memory of Wicki he has left.

Aldo is the oldest among 12 siblings, he spend his early years raising them before he got shunned by his family and lost all contact for years, when in the basterds he still acted like an older brother/father figure to the youngest one's, he has terrible survivor guilt about every basterd who died underneath his command.

Aldo tried to move on after the war and got married before having a kid, he tried his best but he and his wife ended up agreeing on divorce and Aldo's son moved whit her to California, he had him on holidays. (You can take this as he's Cliff Booths father btw I love that headcanon)

Donny always talked about how when he returned from the war he would have taken his little brother to see the red socks, before he walked into the cinema he made Utivich promise he would have done it in his place and Smitty did, and kept doing it for the following years voluntarily just because Donny's brother reminds him so much of his dead friend.

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If you want more or about a specific character hit me up I have so many of them djdbfjhbd

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MURRELL IS OUT

The shrines are being quickly dismantled, the offerings covered up.  Portraits removed and disposed of.

No one EVER supported Murrell,or Sturgeon - is the new line.  

The Propaganda Hag is now busily re-writing the official line…! 

There is no continuity - ‘they had to go’ ‘we will be better and stronger now…!’ ‘She was holding us back…!!!’   

Rat Jumps for his Life

Yes - all the lies are mingling with the smell of burning records as key cult loyalists sneak out right behind their blood Fuhrer and her husband!

[hamletthedane]

Reblog to replace the main character of your selection with Elle Woods.

[unamedherlochnessmonster]

So when bella goes to prom, shes wearing a cast on one leg and a stiletto on the other. Smeyer how tf do you think legs work. Bella legit just limped throughout the entire prom no wonder shes pissed at edward for forcing her to go with him

[hussyknee]

Okay who the fuck is the Al Qassam Brigade's media unit?? All their videos go harder than a freight train. Hollywood couldn't afford them.

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[sarcasticsouthernbookworm]

Blanc’s final advice to Helen was burn this motherfucker down