This a clip from the movie Hairspray. In this clip Seaweed (the black guy with the waves) is singing about what life is like for black person in Baltimore during the civil rights movement. It doesn’t seem like he wants to assimilate into white culture, but more of being comfortable and not having to deal with the constant stereotypes and stigmas that are associated with black people of the time. He is basically using this song to tell Tracy, Penny and Link to inform the other “white folk” that black people are not that bad, but even if the whites don’t get it, they will still be doing their own thing amongst themselves.

Samurai Jack is a prince from Feudal Japan who is given the responsibility of defeating a demonic wizard name Aku. Using a magical blade given by his father he sets out to defeat Aku. Just when he was about to defeat Aku, the wizard makes a time portal sending samurai Jack to the future. The show follows Jack in his quest to defeat Aku and find a way back to his time. Samurai Jack experiences displacement because he has to adjust to the future and its advanced technology. He goes through culture shock since the customs and people are different compared to his time.  During his adventures he slowly learns to adjust to the future as well as making allies.

http://kissasian.com/Drama/Hayate-the-Combat-Butler/Episode-1?id=6767

Hayate the Combat Butler is a Taiwanese TV show that is about a protagonist, Hayate, who is broke and in debt because of the debt his parents accumulated while gambling (156.8 million yen or 1.4 million us dollars or 42.9 million New Taiwan Dollar). The big debt causes Hayate to start doing many part time jobs because he wants to help his parents by attempting to pay off their debt. When he runs out of time, to pay off the debt, he considers robbing a rich person, but instead decides to protect them when someone else tried to harm them. In return, the rich person gave him a job as a butler and pays off his debt. Hayate was in a new and unfamiliar place. He had to adjust from his daily civilian life to his new life as a butler for an extremely rich person. Hayate had to improve his house skills to get approval from his master and he had to improve his combat skills to get approval from other butlers. As a rookie butler, Hayate had trouble adjusting to a rich life that is worry-free of debt. When Hayate meets other rich people or other butlers, he try his best to hide the fact that he used to be broke and in debt because he does not want to harm his master’s reputation. This is similar to superman because Clark Kent also trys to hide his true identity from others.

In the American sitcom Friends, created by David Crane, it takes place in New York City following the personal and professional lives of six mid-20’s close friends. In the first episode, we meet Rachel who just ran away from her wedding leaving her fiancé Barry. She realizes that she never loved him, so she rushes out in her wedding dress coming across Monica, her high school friend, and meets the whole gang as well. From Rachel’s ego and personality, we can tell she was raised in an upper-class lifestyle who was constantly spoiled by her father with money and luxurious items. Back in Monica’s apartment, Rachel is on the phone with her father trying to explain her reasons for running away. Full of emotions, she admitted she could be independent and does not need her father’s money to survive. Rachel decided to move in with Monica in her apartment as she figures out her life and discovers her independency. She feels displaced because her lifestyle has changed dramatically to where she must provide for herself. Being so dependent on her father has made her a bit arrogant into thinking everything will be handed to her. As the show continues, it shows her struggling of having to do everything on her own and assimilating to finding her path in life. There is a whole new life out there for her now, and it is up to her to decide on every choice she makes from now on.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwbRXXsYbUc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyILENqGHNQ

This heart wrenching story covers the life of Duop, a teenager who was forced to become a child soldier 6 years ago. Duop is now 16, he was taken as a young boy, with purity and innocence in him. This innocence all children have was eventually beat out of him to the point that he became quiet and conservative. Duop was displaced because he was dragged out of his home town, his family, and placed in a war zone. He had witnessed many war crimes while he was a child soldier. Duop was forced to hurt people he did not wish to harm. In order to survive, he had to do as he was told or else more beatings and abuse would come.

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/04/world/africa/child-soldier-south-sudan.html?ref=oembed

In this exciting and action-packed movie, Elizabeth Swann, a young, beautiful, and rich woman who lives in the early 18th century. Elizabeth is used to a life of lavishness and domination. As a woman in the 18th century, you do no have much power. Elizabeth is confused to be the daughter of a pirate. She is then kidnapped and taken from her safe, wealthy home, to a dirty and dangerous pirate ship. The POTC series follows the story of Elizabeth as she grows power and confidence as a woman. She eventually becomes a pirate king, in the pirate world that is dominated by men.

The movie is about Rosalinda Marie Montoya Fiore, the teen princess of Costa Luna, who was rescued from an attempted coup and sent to live in disguise in Lousiana with an agent in the Princess Protection Program and his daughter, Carter Mason. Despite their indifference, Carter and Rosie must work together to obstruct the Costa Luna plot against Rosie becoming queen and the plans of jealous classmates.

Hello Everyone,

For this displacement post, I chose to show the story of North Korean Woman, Yeonmi Park. She and her family have experience and witness displacement in their country and on their journey to freedom.

https://youtu.be/ufhKWfPSQOw

Hello everyone,

While looking online for some articles I stumbled upon this interesting article. It speaks of the struggles that a teen went through because she was an immigrant. She felt displaced in school and other social situations. Jessica, an immigrant from Mexico, also describes how she would try to fit in. She tried to assimilate into this new culture and environment. Jessica also gave advice to immigrants struggling to find a place in a new culture.  I thought this would be relatable as many of us are immigrants or come from immigrant families. Check it out sometime.

Link:http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/20/jessica-is-an-immigrant_n_4304636.html

In the film 13 Going on 30,  a 13 year old girl name Jenna Rink wakes up one day as a 30 year old because of a wish she made on her 13th birthday after the popular girls humiliated her. Since her life fast forwarded and she had no memorable experience of being an adult, her mindset is still of a 13 year old. She is displaced because physically she is an adult, but her mind and soul belonged to a 13 year old. Therefore, she panics when she sees a naked man in her apartment. She assimilates to the adult world as she learns that she works for a magazine company and figures out ways to benefit the company using her unique ideas from her 13 year old mind, such as the idea of a yearbook themed layout for the magazines. She also hangs out with 13 year olds because she feels as if she is one of them. She acts and dresses differently from her co-workers and the adults around her by wearing bright mismatched colors and styling her hair with styles from the past.