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    other. With ethnocentrism come racial discrimination‚ stereotypes‚ and even harsh actions. In the film “Crash”‚ characters of different background face the negative effects of ethnocentrism. The main stereotype featured in the film was of blacks‚ whites‚ Hispanics‚ Asians and middle eastern. Our ethnocentrism causes us to immediately form opinions about those that differ from us. In the movie‚ the whites assumed that all blacks and Hispanics were untrustworthy and violent. This resulted in unnecessary

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    Danelis South                                                    October 19‚ 2017 11th grade If you can’t accept yourself for who you are‚ then what makes you think you could accept others? The director of the film “Crash” uses duality in order to argue that wherever there is class difference‚ there is lack of acceptance. Sometimes this reflects a lack of self acceptance. From the start we can see that class difference and lack of acceptance creates chaos. First‚ we see the scene where the politician’s

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    The film‚ ’Crash’‚ is about how Paul Haggis forces us to see other people’s perspective through racially prejudiced actions. Racism is the belief of different cultures‚ this is usually to do with one person who thinks their own race is superior and have the right to dominate or to rule others. Historical racism is where there were no rules when discriminating other peoples races and had no consequences for their actions‚ most of the time the outcome comes to physical abuse and even death. Modern

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    The issue that discussed in the movie is about the racist problem The scenes that highlights these issues : During the night ‚ two black man(Anthony and Peter) walk out from coffee shop and they discuss about the bad attitude of the waitress that who is black women and one of the black man was keep influencing another black man that in nowadays society ‚ the BLACK and WHITE was in different classes and standard ‚ the BLACK will get eject by the WHITE . At the moment ‚ one pair of the WHITE couple

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    James Knight 12-6-11 Extra Credit Crash: Racially Charged The movie CRASH pertains to a day of encounters of people of different races. An interaction between strangers ended in chaos‚ hatred‚ and fear. The movie portrayed interactions of different races causing clashes between victim and aggressor‚ superior and inferior and an idealist and racist. Racism was portrayed as a common attitude of the characters played. Crash is an eye opener to the problem of our society; racial discrimination

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    Choose three characters from the movie crash and compare their relationship elements based on social status‚ gender dynamics‚ age‚ race and tolerance of uncertainty. The opposing characters within the movieCrash” depict contrasting lifestyles‚ attitudes and behaviours.The elements of social status and gender dynamics determine the characters’ tolerance for uncertainty as well as the ways in which they react to societal situations. A situation which may be quite dramatic and life changing for

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    portrayed in fictional film‚ to say that movies similar to Crash are completely accurate portrayals of reality is an oversight. The movie Crash‚ directed by Paul Haggis‚ is an attempt to accurately portray the various racial‚ ethnic‚ and racial stereotypes within the cast of characters

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    Whom do I most relate to in Crash? The question has the same prejudice as the movie. The movie implies that everyone is racist (or at least have some stereotypical pictures of other cultures)‚ which creates problems in dealing with those from these other cultures. Therefore‚ since if everyone is racist‚ I must also be racist and be able to identify with one of the characters. Crash kills diversity since without diversity‚ there would be nothing to be prejudiced against. It’s hard for me to pick

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    12-20-12 Crash Stereotypes The movie Crash is a film that begs audiences to question all the discrimination and all the wrongs that occur and are often unseen by the general public. Crash tells joining stories of whites‚ blacks‚ Latinos‚ Asian‚ Iraqis‚ cops and criminals‚ the rich and the poor‚ all defined in one way or another by racism. The plot revolves around the city of Los Angeles‚ a city surrounded by violence and fear. The issue of racial stereotyping is highlighted in Crash when characters

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    In the movieCrash” there are many examples of profiling throughout the film. Racial profiling is defined as the use of race or ethnicity as grounds for suspecting someone of having committed an offense. Its very important during the film not only including African American but as well as Hispanic‚ Persian‚ and American culture. In the film there is this Persian family who owned a store and the father went to buy a gun with his daughter for there protection at the store. The father didn’t know

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