“Meet the Patels” is a hilarious comedy that exhibits the issues of race, culture, love and family. The humorous, eye opening documentary is based on a Hindu family whose son, Ravi Patel tries to find his life partner. The 30-year-old Indian/American actor and comedian is fresh out of a breakup with Audrey, his confidential lover and is pressured by the rude awaken that he needs to find a life partner. On his trip to India, his home country, Patel decides to put serious effort to change his relationship status by the help of his parents. The Los-Angeles based actor basically puts his love life under the domain of his parents who plunge him in a matchmaking system. This involves him embarking on dates with Indian-American women from the Patel clan to find his perfect Patel woman. Regardless to his efforts and continuous lamenting of his parents, Ravi, discusses his increasing frustration and his experiences with his sister. Without much success from the process he recognizes a lot of indecisions on his part consequently ending the process. This essay seeks to illuminate how sexuality is discussed in the documentary and illustrates the positive and negative issues portrayed. …show more content…
However, the aspect of sexuality is largely concern with the way individuals express themselves sexually through physical, emotional and social feelings as well as behavior. The documentary clearly showcases that in Indian communities it is not all about a person’s sexuality and their concept of love but mainly about the common understanding shared in their society and the capability of a family to come together. At the beginning, the piece focuses on the Patel’s quest to for love. However, as the filming prolonged, it became more about commitment and compatibility. This depicts that the sexual orientation of Ravi Patel or any other member of this community should consider all aspects of the tradition and the family
Throughout the course of time the elastic clause and the commerce clause has been utilized in court cases and arguments. With time the clauses have changed the fit into the change of society. As represented by various court cases. A variation of interpretations has been drawn out within the time frame of its establishment. A loose and strict interpretation has been implemented in the constitution depending on point of views. Although, the interpretation of the constitution is strictly restricted to the Judicial Branch as concluded in the court case Marbury Versus Madison. The elastic clause is known as congress has the power to do what is “Necessary and Proper”. In contrast, commerce clause is, often, limited with concerning trading issues. Thus concluding, the Elastic Clause has more power rather than the Commerce clause.
Watching this documentary was a roller coaster of emotions for myself. At times I was excited for Ravi before his countless dates, but I was also exhausted at how much time and money was put forth to find someone that met the criteria for his culture. Finding a spouse seemed a lot like trying to acquire a job. You’d fill out at applications and send them out, as well as receive them. Most of it wasn’t based off of falling in love, a lot of it was based off how well two people might fit together. It made me feel thankful that, for myself, trying to become married was never gonna be about my culture and whether or not I was a little chubby. My parents are never going to make me a dating resume, in hopes that men could get past my love for crocheting and slightly crooked teeth. I found myself wanting there to be romance involved for Ravi’s sake, but I had to
In the Indian culture, marriage is different from another culture's point of view. In the film Ravi decides to break a two year relationship from an American woman before he attended his family trip to India, which coincides with
During the time in the 1950’s, the escalation of mass media with the use of television shows had greatly emphasized the idealist family standards: a white nuclear family standard of living within conventional gender roles that stresses on family hierarchy that became a societal norm as a “perfect family” today. In Gary Soto’s “Looking for Work” and Roger Jack’s “An Indian Story”, bother short stories contest against familial customs. Soto describes how the media shapes the idea of a “family” to the young narrator that inspires him to push his family and himself to assimilate into the while culture. Roger conveys a story of a young Indian boy defying against both his Indian and familial ethics. Together, these stories share a common theme. Both
In the article “An Anthropological Look at Human Sexuality” the authors, Patrick Gray and Linda Wolfe speak about how societies look at human sexuality. The core concept of anthology is the idea of culture, the systems of attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors people acquire as a member of society. The authors give an in depth analysis on how human sexuality is looked at in all different situations.
The romantic comedy, Today’s Special, expressed the worries of Indian parents becoming at ease. Also, expressed the struggles a parent faces in search of a better life, the passion and dedication going unnoticed in the work field, and the connection between friends, a lover, and family. However, the film centered its attention more on the development in Samir’s “cold” cooking within the Indian food, with the help of Akbar.
A traditional extended family living in Northern India can become acquainted through the viewing of Dadi’s family. Dadi, meaning grandmother in Hindu, lets us explore her family up close and personal as we follow the trials and tribulations the family encounters through a daily basis. The family deals with the span of three generations and their conflicting interpretations of the ideal family life. Dadi lets us look at the family as a whole, but the film opens our eyes particularly on the women and the problems they face. The film inspects the women’s battle to secure their status in their family through dealing with a patriarchal mentality. The women also are seen attempting to exert their power, and through it all we are familiarized to
The community plays a key role when it comes to erotic plasticity, and the person’s sexual identity. Women’s sexual identity is seen as be adventures. Exploring ones sexual attitude, desire, decisions, and behavior. There sexual acts do not defined them, and can go through life without their high sex drive decreasing. However it is different for men when it comes to exploring their sex drive. Male sexuality is evolutionary and biological factor playing key roles in their life course. When a man experience sex with another man it is assumed they will always be gay. The so called deviant act, unlike to women defines their sexually identity. (McElwain, Grimes, & Melissa L. McVicker, 2009, p.
... However, with investigation into the visual elements of this film, meanings of this film expand beyond the literal dialog and -- existing in the film. Works Cited Desai, Jigna. 2004. The 'Secondary' of the 'Secondary' of the 'Secondary' of the 'Secondary' of the 'Secon “Homo on the Range: Queering Postcoloniality and Globalization in Deepa Mehta’s Fire,” in Beyond Bollywood.
What is it about sex that makes everyone so uncomfortable? Upon reading Randa Jarrar’s A Map of Home, one of the major themes that the novel goes in depth about is Nidali’s sexual awakening. Many students would argue that this novel is littered with too much sexual activity, i.e. masturbation. However, A Map of Home is a novel about finding your place in this world; the search for your identity and purpose. Sexual identity plays a significant part of that continuum. You may question, “Well, could you have figure out a way to describe her story without all the sex stuff?” This statement would demolish the novel’s relatable and sheer honest tone, as well as disintegrate the genuineness behind the narrative if Jarrar would omit Nidali’s sexual experiences. The complete fact that young teenagers do think about sex so often makes one grasp the true relatability this novel showcases through the main character’s sexual experiences. In this essay, I plan to explore the importance of sexual awakening, Nidali’s own reasons for experimenting with her sexuality, and what we can ultimately learn from being open with what we want in that context.
An extremely pivotal exosystem that exists throughout the documentary are the boarding schools. Many of the boarding schools in India will not accept children who come from brothels. This decision from the boarding schools is a decision that Kochi is powerless to. Kochi does not participate in the schools’ decision process and yet the process has an immeasurable effect on her. This powerlessness is a primary factor leading to impaired development and psychopathology.
Hess, Linda. Rejecting Sita: Indian Responses to the Ideal Man's Cruel Treatment of His Ideal Wife. Vol. 67. New York: Oxford UP, 1999. Print.
The behaviors of the Pokot wives and husbands illustrated in the article “Human sexuality in cross-culture Perspective” show the norms of sexuality behaviors that are different from the U.S norms. The Pokot wives believe that their behaviors are right things to be done or are the appropriate sanctions given to a husband who is not able to sexually satisfy his wife. However, the US perceives these behaviors differently. In the US perspective, it is considered to be a deviance that is against the law within the society. It is considers to be domestic abuse which might lead some individuals involved in this behaviors to be given a negative sanctions like sending them to prison.
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As time goes on a gap is created between the past generations and the current generations. This gap between men in the 1950s and the men now (2009) are similar and different in terms of the roles they play, their attitudes towards society, women and work, and their identities. The root to the generation gap in India is due to the influence of media especially television and movies have caused people to look up to the characters and strives to act like them, which reinforce gender stereotypes and identities. For example, Love Aaj Kal, an Indian movie released in 2009 is a contrast of couples in the 1980s and present day. In the movie one of the actors says, “Aaj ke ladke bauth modern aur independent ho gaye hai. Hum aare zamane mein baath hi kuch aur thi” (Veer Singh). In translation, it means that, “Boys these days are very modern and independent. In our time things were different”(Veer Singh). The following are many different ways to interpret what the actor was trying to say about men then and now in regards to roles, attitudes and their identities.