BODY LANGUAGE "AMISTAD"

La Amistad is a movie in which black people are slaves, and a specific group of black people from a unknown land is captured by Americans. The problem that exists with this group is that many people want to be owned of them. To Americans, to Cubans, and to Spanish is very important to have them since those slaves represent money. However, there are some people who want to help them because they believe that slaves have also rights, and they need to be treated as humans not as merchandise, but slavers and people who want to help them do not speak the same language and this make a little difficult the communication. Nevertheless, they find the way to communicate despite of language differences, it is non verbal communication. They realize that they can transmit their ideas using their body language, with this, they make signs, expressions, and sounds to break the barrier that exist among them, and in this way to find the solution of the problem.





BODY LANGUAGE: people always use parts of their body to express their ideas, emotions, feelings, and so on. Not always is important to speak in order to say something because with sound, signs, gestures, movements, people also can communicate with others. Body language is a useful tool to express and to understand messages, but it is very necessary to know them since body language changes depending on the place and on the culture, it means, a specific gesture in Colombia can mean something, but the same gesture can mean something different in another country. I think that it is one of the reasons why culture shock is caused because people realize that language is not only the difference, also body language. Consequently, people feel frustrated if they do not know it.