Racism Vs Bike Thief

Some people make decisions based on racism and sexism. Racism is when people judge others based on their skin color. Sexism is when people judge others because of their gender. Both racism and sexism are mostly based on stereotypes. A good example that show this is the Bike Thief video. In the Bike Thief video, the actor steals a bike that is chained to a sign in a park. The first actor to do it is a young white male. He uses a hammer, bolt cutters, and even a saw. When he is stealing the bike, people look at him weirdly, but don’t do anything. A couple of people ask him about it, but just keep walking. The only people that told him to stop were an old couple. Only those two people out of the one hundred that passed by that day did anything.
Leashes can be used for discipline, to teach kids not to run off, and to make sure that the kids stay close to their guardian. Parents might use a leash if their kid likes to run off or if the child has a disability. Parents who use leashes on their children might be called ‘lazy parents’. That might be true, but the parent/guardian might have a lot on their hands. They might have a bunch of kids, which in that situation, leashes would be useful. If one child runs off, the parent can run and go get that child. But if more than one child runs off, if there is only parent there, the parent wouldn’t be able to catch up. It is a safety issue for the children. An experiment was done where a mother had her kids on leashes in public and treated them like dogs, even tieing the children to a pole when she was going into the store. The mother and her children were all actors. When it was the mother with one child, there were just a few comments. One person intervened. The person was a mother and a social worker. When the leash was tied to the pole during the first experiment, people took pictures, but didn’t say anything about. When one of the people who took the pictures was asked about it, he said,”It’s not my place, It’s not my business.” The next experiment that was done with the leashes was a nanny and a pack of kids. The nanny was treating the kids like dogs on leashes. During this experiment a teenager gets involved, telling the actor that it is wrong. People don’t seem to like the leashes when they are abused. The next run with the leashes was with a mother that had kids on leashes, but was holding her dog. When she went into the store she tied up her kids, but carried her dog in with her. People got really mad during that experiment. Multiple people intervened, one woman saying,”I would never tell a mother how to be a mother, but this is absolutely wrong!” This shows that people