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——The Gua Sha Treatment Introduction The film “Gua Sha” presents the cultural differences and conflicts between the largest Eastern country, China and the strongest Western state, America. Through this film, we can see there is a gulf of cultural differences between the two countries, just as the Pacific Ocean divides the continents into two parts. Guasha--symbol of culture a traditional Chinese medical treatment for certain illnesses by scraping the forehead, neck, and chest and back of the patient with a bar or copper coin to cause congestion in the skin vessels to alleviate pain or inflammation. In this film, it represented the traditional Chinese medical skills. It has something to do with “jing and mai”（经脉/经络）. But American doctors didn’t approve of it, because western medicine believes experiments. They didn’t find the jing mai when they dissected the bodies. Datong Xu’s family----a cross section of the diversity of cultures. Every member in the family represents a special cultural form. Datong Xu----a mosaic of Chinese culture and American culture. Xu was a Chinese immigrant in U.S.A. and he had been there for eight years. He had accepted many behaviors and views in American way. Meanwhile the traditional Chinese thoughts and values were rooted in his mind deeply. The two kinds of cultures coexisted in Xu’s mind. Usually they were compatible, but sometimes they conflicted with each other. Mrs. Xu Ning Jian Datong’s wife----a representation of another kind of Asian-Americans What she knew about Chinese culture was fewer than Datong. She had been fully westernized without awareness. She had the American value, spoke English, taught her son in the American way. even at the dinner, she asked her son, Denise to use fork instead of chopsticks. Datong’s father Yixiang Xu ----a typical symbol of traditional Chinese culture. He was totally incompatible with the modern American culture. He had many virtues of traditional Chinese culture, such as： loving youn