Crash

This week in calss we watched the movie "Crash". The movie is great. It really demonstrates the race sterotypes that our cultures make. The movie is about a group of people that are all some how interconected and how racisim affects them in one way or another. 

This movie really works well for waht we are learning in class. We have learned that there really is no such thing as race. Theres nothing in our DNA that says your white or your asian. Race is just what society says it is. The movie shops how sterotypes are based on the way people look. In the begging of the movie you first notice it when the female cop goes and yells at the asian woman for her driving. Asian driving is a huge racist sterotype. You also can see how black in the movies are viewed as just all around bad people. They have to be theifs or poorly educated. They couldn't just be a nice guy. And if a black man is shot by a white man it is a hate crime.

The truth is the movie really demonstrates how society works. People are racist to some degree in my opinion no matter what. I feel that yes we have made improvements, but there are always going to be these stereotpyes. I here it all the time at school. It could be some remark about how asians are just naturally smart, how only mexicans work in the fast food industries, and so on. Its really a fair assumption to say all people are racist to some degree. I see it getting better, but we have hundreds of years of society brainwashing to reverse.