Monday, May 20, 2019

Crash Paper

Crash displayed various(a) aspects of racism and stereotypes that occur everyday. One of the three major scenes in the movie that stood out was when the devil policemans plait over a black couple. Obviously theyve done zero point comp permitely harmful, foolhardy or d fretfulnessous. The direct officer claims the wife was performing falatio, while driving a vehicle, which could be a form of reckless driving and can be penalized for it. In fear of authority, and in all respect, the husband complies as nice as feasible to the officers demands. While doing so, the officer is responding in the rudest manor.He asks the officer if its okay to reach in the paw department for his paperwork and the officer replies with a very suspicious yeah nice and slow. Now on the other hand, the other officer takes no part in what goes on next be form he knows whats right on and wrong, hes deemed the good cop. The leading officer comes back to test him if hes drunk and driving and he wasnt. Comp lying with the officer one time again, he did it. His wife, a little drunk, tries to explain in a firm manor that theyve done nonhing wrong and what hes doing is wrong.Feeling an undermining to his authority, he gets angry and as she gets out of the car to confront him he tells the couple to good turn around and place their hands behind their heads. As he pats down his wife, he grabs her inappropriately and asks what should be done since what theyve done can technically be get holdn as a crime. Coming back to complying to an prideful figure out of fear and recognition of authority, her husband had one of two choices he either couldve verbalise up, done something about it and got arrested or kept quiet, let him do what he knew was wrong and be let off with just a warning.Thinking that he would not win over an authority figure kindred the cops word, he didnt say anything and let it happen. This situation brings up The Authoritarian Personality from one of the theories of prejud ice in which the man complied to everything the officer asked for by just being or even just looking to be an authority figure. Also, the officer shows that intolerance and aggression as one would to those who dont conform as well, as you would see in The Authoritarian Personality. T heres an automatic fear that comes to people when they think of the police.Its the fact that theyre given that title of an officer of the law that leaves you naive to think anything he does is ok and even though you know its wrong sometimes, you dont score the courage to say it cause youre not supposed to. Its not the norm of society. The second scene is where two black men walk out of the restaurant and the first one is the one that blames everything bad possible on his misfortune of being black. He continues on to complain about how since hes black he had to forbear a lot longer than the white people that were there being exercised.As he complained about what he didnt get because he was black, his friend reminds him that he didnt even want what he was complaining for and its not cause theyre both black. As his friend starts to grass his case, he also reminds him that the waitress was indeed black and they werent racially prejudice. But he goes ahead anyways to continue blaming his skin color and that the waitress presumed that since they were dressed a reliable way and talked a certain way they werent going to tip, so she waited a little longer to serve them.These are all examples of Frustration and Scapegoating from one of the theories of prejudice. It shows his need to blame white people for his personal shortcomings and misfortunes, such(prenominal) as waiting a long time to be served and being looked at as a threatening figure in society. Although, he wasnt going to tip anyways and he and his friend are car-jackers. Its senile and ironic how hed think that. And if there was such a stereotype, then why not beat it.To make it worse, he lived up to those same stereotypes and continued to blame other things. In the last scene, a nerve eastern family man has a business which is his only source of income. From past experience and safety reasons he tells his, more educated and literate, American female child to buy a gun for the interjects protection and his own. He orders a guy to come in and change the locks as well, but the problem happens to be the door and not the locks. He hires a technician to change the locks and he happens to be Hispanic.The Hispanic technician is a father of a flipper year old girl that moved out of his old neighborhood for her safety and a let out upbringing. A couple days after, the two get into a fight, in which the middle eastern investment firm owner screams at him for not changing the locks meanwhile the door is the one that needs a replacement, as the technician tries to explain. As the argument sprouts, the technician just wants his money and wants to leave but the owner doesnt pay him and in anger he leaves.The next day the store gets torn apart, robbed and vandalized in all kinds of ways and now the store owner is left with nothing and his life is ruined. In anger and to gain vengeance, he takes the gun and at once assumes it was the lock technician that left in anger from the other day. As one of the theories of prejudice, selective erudition, is portrayed here when he automatically assumes it was the Hispanic guy that talks a certain way and has visible conspicuous tattoos.Coming to an immediate conclusion that it was him, he goes to his house and asks for his money for the store and fires the blank bullet exactly when his daughter came in between. Both were left in shock, to only find out that it was a blank bullet. He had no evidence that it was him but just because he was Hispanic and looked deal he would do something like that, he came to a conclusion that it was him. Ironically, the guy was the nicest man and an incredible father and proved his selective perception wrong. Assum ing is a root to a kind of prejudice as well and this scene was a great example.

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