Culture Clash: Banger vs. Hot Dog
Mel can't comprehend Stephen's favorite all-American food. Watch her verbal confusion when she confronts her hubby's bad eating.
Mel can't comprehend Stephen's favorite all-American food. Watch her verbal confusion when she confronts her hubby's bad eating.
It is interesting how so many different words can mean the same thing. Actually it is just interesting how there is almost different languages in the same language. For example, even though Americans and British speak English they use different words. An American would probably say awesome while a Brit would say brilliant. Another example is that people from Ohio are the only people that use the word pop instead of soda. It is just strange how stuff like that happens and I would assume it happens in other languages too.
ReplyDeleteThe differences in these two people are huge. The way the woman speaks and presents herself is very put together and the man seems sloppy. She seems obsessed with eating only healthy food while the man was eating "testicles from a pig" a.k.a. a hot dog.
ReplyDeleteThe distinction in the words the two use and the accents they obtain is primarily due to geography. The women sounds like she could have been born in Europe where the man was probably born in the United States of America. Both do seem unyielding in what they say probably because both assume that they are right because that is how they grew up learning to say it. This could also be the difference when the women wants to eat healthy where as the man is alright eating a good old American hot dog and chips.
ReplyDeleteMel seems like she is from the upper class, while the man looks like an average American. Also, she sounds like she could be British resulting in her word choice seeming peculiar to use Americans, however it is normal for her to use the word choice she does. Also, she seems misinformed on what a hot dog is, trying to make it seem worse than it is while she is trying to get her man to eat healthier.
ReplyDeletedifferent parts of the world call certain things by different names. its a simple matter of life, and people generally tend to make too big of a deal of it. being from NH the term "wicked" gets thrown around to put effaces on anything you want. slang and terminology is something is rooted deep with in people and is considered as part of there culture. you can argue over weather it should be called a "hotdog" or a "banger" all day long but when it comes down to it is just a matter of is the customary term in the region you are in.
ReplyDeleteit's not interesting to me. it's just the word you choose. does it matter when you say "banger" or "hot-dog"? they are the same thing. there're countless different words British and American people use in everyday life. like "pavement" and "sidewalk", "lift" and "elevator",etc. yet, there's no problem when a British talks to an American. they can understand each other easily.
ReplyDeleteThe difference in words used according to region or country varies because each group have their own words that identify them. This not only happens in the English language but it also happens For Spanish as well.I often encounter this at home when i'm talking to my parents.I use one word and it upsets one but not the other. It's kind of amsuing how one word can mean different things around the world. The choices of words used according to geography is what makes each region unique.
ReplyDeleteWe are all products of our environment. Obviously we can tell from the woman's accent that she is British, while the guy looks and sounds like you typical American male slob, but hey, who don't like hot dogs. Both of them are speaking English, but it's a specific dialect of English that each of them grew up talking. Growing up in Ohio, I have never heard of a hot dog being called a banger and it sounds out of place. Calling potato chips crisps would be easier to figure out, but I think it's interesting that, in Britain when you order fish and chips it = fish and french fries. This video is a good example of how a basic language can branch out and adopt not only regional accents, but the slag of those regions also. It's the same way in the states, like trevor was saying pop versus soda.
ReplyDeleteThis was very uninteresting. There are many different words for things, just within American English, that have the same meaning. People could make infinite ammounts of videos showing the same thing for years and years. The only aspect worth noting is that hot dog and banger are both words associated with low class sausages made of substandard incredients, such as one may find in a hot dog. Hot dog is suspected to have originated from the inclusion of dog meat in the sausages at one point in time and bangers originated from the sound sausages of exploding ,when being cooked, due to low quality wrapping. They would pop with a loud bang, hence the name banger.
ReplyDeleteThe second last line is meant to read "sound of exploding sausages..."
DeleteThis video was definitely culture clash. Even though it was over something meaningless and the whole aspect of the fight was stupid, the way how two cultures view a simple hot dog is still culture clash, from what they call it to how much they do (or don't) like it.
ReplyDeleteI thought this video was pretty funny. It shows how something as simple as language can cause culture clash. Mel is obviously from the UK and has been socialized differently than her American husband. Banger and Hot dog mean the same thing, but may be percieved as something different dependig on the individual. This video just shows how socialization according to where you come from, can change your opinion and reaction to certain situations and aspects of life in general.
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