Falling Down Sociology

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Falling down is a powerful movie. It touches on aspects of society that will always exist among us and we all have to put up with each day. This movie represents a monster that I cannot help but to sympathize with. Many may view this movie as a social commentary or a sort condemnation of our modern society. But on a personal level, I believe it represents the degree of frustration within each of us. It shows how little control we have on what is going on around us in terms of socioeconomics, ethnics and local government aspects. The movie starts with D-fens sitting in his car stuck in traffic, no AC, loud music and loud children on a school bus. This ultimately leads him to abandon his car in the middle of traffic and decides to walk home. …show more content…

This scene explains how biased many institutions can be, and how absurd it is to see that your racial ethnicity may determine whether or not you’re a profitable project to invest in. this scene may have helped spurring prop 209 which prohibit public institutions from discriminating on the basis of race, sex, or ethnicity. Then he goes inside a gun store that is owned by neo-Nazi enthusiast. The owner thinks D-fens is a member but was proven wrong. This scene may explain how whites think minorities/immigrants are taking over major cities turning whites into minorities. Furthermore, the scene highlights an explanation as why many Americans concerned about illegal immigrant, but this also leads to a mix up between legal and illegal immigrants when viewed by white majorities. Speaking in terms of our previous discussions, many Americans believe that legal/illegal immigrants are living off public benefits and do not contribute in any ways to the publics good. The subject may have helped spurring proposition …show more content…

My personal experience shows the impact of diversity on the environment that I live in. diversity slowly turns any environment into a melting pot, furthermore, culture diversity will heavily reduce the impact of any dominant race that has a continuous influx of other ethnic minorities. From the above statement, we can deduce that the identity and culture of the dominant race will lose its

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