This is one the scenes from the Series “Switched at Birth”. In this scene Daphne is a deaf character, which is what sets her apart from her family, and essentially her school community. She had chosen to be in a regular school because she wanted to adapt to her surroundings. However, in this scene we see that even though she tries to fit in, her incapacity of hearing enables people to take advantage of her. She has her deaf friend help her out in selling tacos for money. Even though she can hear a little, her friend cannot. Therefore, when she was robbed her friend wasn’t able to help her. In this case, both of them are displaced because their hearing provokes others from viewing them as weak. Its very similar to Prince of Belair, because even though he tries to fit in, he still remains an outcast.

The Martian is about an astronaut who gets stranded on Mars after his crew thinks he is dead. While on a mission,  Mark and his crew encounter a storm that separates them. On their way back to Earth, they find out that he is alive. Mark assimilated to the environment in Mars by using his knowledge of science to help him survive. The next mission to Mars was not for another four years, so he spends his time trying to communicate with them. While in Mars, he extends his food supply by growing potatoes in a planet where nothing grows.  He experiences storms, extremely cold weather and constant failures in his attempts as a botanist. He uses satellites to write to NASA and is successful. Although his chances of survival are minimal, he puts his thinking cap on and convinces them of is plan.  They return to Mars and rescue him. Mark overcomes his displacement and goes back to Earth.

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.

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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