Cultural collision in the movie “Daisy Miller” - diff erences in social behavior

Abstract

Under the exchange and collision of world cultures, communicative behavior has become an important component of social
interaction. The movie “Daisy Miller” is adapted from Henry James’ novel “Daisy Miller” and tells the tragic love story between two young
people with diff erent social and cultural backgrounds. The diff erences in their social and cultural behaviors are also one of the reasons
that cannot be ignored for this tragedy. In order to analyze the characteristics, cultural origins, and related inspirations of communication
behavior in different cultures of Europe and America, this article combines the movie “Daisy Miller” and starts from the perspective
of communication behavior, focusing on the “rationality” of communication. Using Habermas’ communication theory, it analyzes the
characteristics, reasons, and infl uences of cross-cultural communication, and obtains the enlightenment that cross-cultural communication
behavior should conform to “rationality”. “Rationality” is the core of communication behavior, otherwise, communication behavior cannot
be established without “rationality”.