We were given the opportunity to receive extra credit by watching the movie Crash. The movie was about people of different races and different job positions and what kind of hate that these people had or developed over the span of the movie. This movie showed so much hate when people didn't even know the person that they hated. I decided that I was going to discuss some of the characters in the movie and the types of hate that they showed. It made me think about the times that I have done this and how I probably should have handled the situation that I was in.
In the movie the character that Sandra Bullock played was very hateful after the two black characters in the movie stole their vehicle. She didn’t even want someone who was Hispanic changing the locks on her door and she also began to be very rude to her maid as well. She didn’t know that the Hispanic guy had a kid and wasn’t a “gangsta” as she had called him but I think she was so freaked out that she didn’t really know what to do in that situation. She didn’t feel comfortable at that moment.
Another moment is when the two black kids came out of the restaurant. The one, who was played by Ludacris, thought that everyone was either scared of them or didn’t serve them the same way that the waitresses served the white people. He was overthinking everything and didn’t stop and think that maybe he was just imagining these things.
He thought that everyone was discriminating against him which brings me to my second point in the movie. There was a lot of discrimination that went on. Besides the incidents with the two black kids there was the white cop who was played by Matt Dillon. He pulled over the black couple in the movie because he thought the girl was performing a sexual act on the man. When he saw that they were black he instantly searched them and was trying to embarrass her husband and herself by feeling her up.
One other act of racial discrimination is when the Persian man was trying to buy a gun and the guy who sold the guns got into an argument with him and refused to sell him the gun because he thought the Persian man was Arab.
The final thing that I would like to talk about is stereotypes. The black kids in the movie automatically thought that they were being stereotyped in the restaurant and when they walked out and thought that the character Sandra played was scared of them because they were black.
This situation also gets flipped around with Sandra’s character as well. She thinks that she was being stereotyped as being a scared white lady after she had had her car stolen.
When everyone shows hate like that then it is very hard for everyone to get along in society. Here, you don’t really see quite as much of this because we are really not as culturally diverse. With the oilfield we are becoming more diverse and everyone is having to adapt to and learn how people from other places act and the reasons that they may act in that manner. This movie showed what bigger cities can be like and the kind of hate there really is here.
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