Embracing Diversity
Define discrimination and support your answer with an example from the movie.
Discrimination can be defined as treating someone unjustly or unfavourably particularly because of age, gender, race, or sexuality. We can see various examples of racial discrimination in the movie Remember the Titans from both races. We can see this particularly towards the start of the movie when Julius (dark) and Garry (white) are put into a room together, Julius puts up a poster but Garry makes him take it down which then leads to a fight. The fact that Garry starts a fight with Julius shows the audience that he feels that he is better than Julius because of the skin difference, and that is an act of discrimination.
Define vilification and support your answer with an example from the movie.
We can define vilification as writing or speaking abusively or derogatively. A clear example of this in the movie would be how when the new coach, coach Boone, is referred to as Coach Coon- a derogative term for someone of dark skin colour. Only the lighter skinned children refer to him as this with staff members of the school wishing they could also do the same. Another example would be the continual use of the word ‘them’ or ‘your people’ when referring to either colour (mainly the darker coloured people).
Define prejudice and support your answer with an example from the movie.
Prejudice is term that refers to a preconception people may have about something or someone despite not having any experiences regarding the person or thing. We can see this with Sheryl Yoast (the coach’s daughter) and how she reacts to the new coach (Coach Boone). When the coach first arrives she assumes that he isn’t good at what he does and that he’s just trying to stop her father from getting into the hall of fame- she only assumes this because he’s black and she refuses to make time for him or his family. This shows prejudice because she hasn’t even seen him coach or let him even speak for the matter and yet
Discrimination can be defined as treating someone unjustly or unfavourably particularly because of age, gender, race, or sexuality. We can see various examples of racial discrimination in the movie Remember the Titans from both races. We can see this particularly towards the start of the movie when Julius (dark) and Garry (white) are put into a room together, Julius puts up a poster but Garry makes him take it down which then leads to a fight. The fact that Garry starts a fight with Julius shows the audience that he feels that he is better than Julius because of the skin difference, and that is an act of discrimination.
Define vilification and support your answer with an example from the movie.
We can define vilification as writing or speaking abusively or derogatively. A clear example of this in the movie would be how when the new coach, coach Boone, is referred to as Coach Coon- a derogative term for someone of dark skin colour. Only the lighter skinned children refer to him as this with staff members of the school wishing they could also do the same. Another example would be the continual use of the word ‘them’ or ‘your people’ when referring to either colour (mainly the darker coloured people).
Define prejudice and support your answer with an example from the movie.
Prejudice is term that refers to a preconception people may have about something or someone despite not having any experiences regarding the person or thing. We can see this with Sheryl Yoast (the coach’s daughter) and how she reacts to the new coach (Coach Boone). When the coach first arrives she assumes that he isn’t good at what he does and that he’s just trying to stop her father from getting into the hall of fame- she only assumes this because he’s black and she refuses to make time for him or his family. This shows prejudice because she hasn’t even seen him coach or let him even speak for the matter and yet