The film “Anatomy of hate” examines hate and prejudice towards different race or minorities in the modern society, through the examples of multiple groups which have specific ideologies or participate in violent conflicts. The director of the film Michael Ramsdell, spent six years working and filming such groups like: White Supremacist movement, Muslim extremists, the Westboro church Christian fundamentalists, Israeli-Palestinian movement, and US soldiers operating in Iraq.
I believe that the purpose of the film was to explain to the viewer that hatred very often originates from anger and fear. Michael Ramsdell is trying to reveal the underlying causes and possible solutions to hate war and violence. He shows us that those emotional and biological mechanisms that make us vulnerable to acts and beliefs of hate can be similarly used to make us proficiently overcome these traits.
So, does anger can be the origin of hate? For sure it can be. After watching few minutes of this film I wanted to bit the crap out of that Billy Roper Nazi bastard. I hated him from the bottom of my guts after few minutes of listening to his psycho-babble. His statements triggered anger in me, and I wanted to hurt him really bad. I hated him not because I am minority or gay, I am none of that, but because my country (Russia) heavily suffered from Nazism during World War II. During whole my life I was taught by teachers, parents, mass media and trough my culture that Nazism is bad and cannot be tolerated. It also can serve as example showing that hate can be passed and taught from generation to generation, and can be based on historical events that cannot be forgotten.
People also can hate each other based on their origins, religion, and philosophy or sim...
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... that turn ideological dispositions of hate into the physical violence inflicted on those that are supposedly representative for that loss. Not the leaders who are responsible for the conflict and involvement of belligerent sides, but simply representatives of the race or the nation participating in this conflict and “presumably responsible” in the death of the soldier.
In the conclusion “Anatomy of Hate” ends on an optimistic note, concentrating on the stories of change and hope. Some of those stories include the same people from earlier in the film. Before they calmly spoke of destroying the enemy and the beauty of killing of opposed, and now they calmly preach dialogue as the true path forward to peace. These type of moments help to end the “Anatomy of hate” on a note of hope and optimism, that one day our world we be clean of the hate that polluting it.
Throughout History our world has seen societies which have risen to power and publicity through pure hatred and suffering of others. Our past could yet, reveal the answer to the question, “Can a society based on hate and suffering survive?”. The most powerful and controversial of these societies will be mentioned and with hope, put an end to our uncertainty. The German Reich, modern day North Korea, Al-Qaeda, and the Ku Klux Klan. These listed had based their societies on hate, suffering, or both, which they have marked themselves forever in history.
In conclusion, I have learned that some humans may hate each other after the fear founded between them, this fear is founded on old behaviors and sometimes fake stories told about the community, culture, or religion one is derived from, without having a hand with any bad thing that happened to ruin his/her origin, but they are the victim of the people’s fear toward different cultures of the same race, this fear shall not be allowed to get in and should be fought for the good of humans and peaceful life. The two personal experiences added some flavor to my knowledge about fighting fears, this flavor is contained in more experience about fear and its types, ways of fighting it, and how to fight fears that build bad connections between people.
Many times in the world, differences have lead to hate. Think of Martin Luther King, for example, who stood for fighting against one of the largest differences. A Separate Peace, by John Knowles, is one of many examples of differences leading to hate. Gene and Finny, who somehow managed to become friends, have completely different views of each other. Finny wanted to be friends with Gene, but had trouble facing the reality that Gene felt differently. Gene became jealous over Finny’s difference to himself. Difference has led to hate, once more, and pain has again resulted, first mentally and emotionally, then finally physically.
“The Automatic Hate” is one of those suspenseful family dramas that you expect something emblematic and even predictable to come out of it, but all of a sudden the story switches to something more reinvigorating, if sporadically hypocrite.
Having watched this movie and applying these concepts to it, I can also relate the concepts to some of my daily interactions with people. Even though racism isn’t prominent in today’s society, it still can be seen on a daily basis. I often have interpersonal conflict with my family as well as contempt with my brother. Passive aggression can also be seen when I have certain feelings towards an individual I don’t like. I show innocent behavior towards them when in reality I can’t stand to be around them. All three of these concepts as well as others in the book can be seen daily if paid close attention to.
The shadow of hate video shows the big, bad, and the ugly reality of what I like to call hidden history. The video was a true representation of what took place within American history, to my surprised the video showed that there wasn’t just one target of ethnicity but targets a variety of groups and people. The hatred that was evident in Shadow of Hate video had a negative impact on Americans and the different cultures that resided in America. Back than the different groups didn’t know to adjust to the diversity of America, thus because everything was based on hate surrounding them. The hatred the video showed us caused suffering, tension, and confusing. Can you imagine that even the political leaders used hatred to gain the respect of one
Hate is a powerful tool: it can break barriers, create violence, establish revenge, or destroy people entirely. Leaving behind rationality; “hatred is a way to shut down the mind to a degree, in order to handle overwhelming stress or trauma”(Wilson 2014), through hatred people detach themselves from practicality and inevitably ensue themselves with violence and revenge. The main character Zits in the novel Flight by Sherman Alexie goes on a spiritual journey to find out what hatred, violence, and revenge can cause. The cause of Zits hate, the violence from his past, the effects violence has, the symbol of Zits hate-Justice, and the change seen in Zits at the end of the novel all shows how hate develops throughout the story. Confronted with
The social-psychological theory is quite astounding in this film. Each race shows frustration and aggression towards the other groups. Such as when Radio Raheem came into Sal’s pizzeria he was rudely asked to turn off his radio. He strikes back at Sal with a similar attitude towards the situation, which in my mind was more then appropriate.
One of the more prevalent themes of this movie is racism, and how prejudicial mindsets ultimately lead to one’s own demise. The movie outlines how racism, among other things, can adversely affect someone’s judgment. After the father died, we see how the family gradually deteriorates financially as well as emotionally after Derek (the older brother played by Edward Norton) turns to a neo Nazi gang for an outlet, which eventually influences his younger brother Danny (played by Edward Furlong) to follow down ...
c) Is stereotyping a basis for any conflict incidents shown in the film? Note some
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Ambient noise filled out the creeks of the classroom and the focus panned onto the physical science teacher with his forearms digging into the podium. His eyes pierced around the classroom back and forth like a hawk sitting on thehighest mountain in Colorado. Finally, after being mysteriously quiet, Mr. Brazen said, "Ugh, In hate Psychology:, the students hushed and adjust in their seats, "I don't get it, like, when people say the stage curtain is blue, so it must mean the stage director is sad!", Mr.Brazen flicks his hand in the air and brushes through his tussled gray hair, "maybe the man just likes the color blue, right, guys?", everyone nodded their heads, and laughed and stammered over another to comment in agreement. Their such sycophants,
... is the brutality of hate and racism. The emotions running high in the movie makes it powerful and moving and the death of Derek’s younger brother Danny Vinyard is shocking enough to bring tears to many viewers’ eyes. The movie ends with Danny’s voice reading his paper out loud and he ends his paper with a very important quote by Abraham Lincoln. This quote shows how Danny’s, as well as Derek’s, mindset changed from the beginning of the movie to the end. When hearing this quote it leaves the viewers in awe that Danny finally started to look past his hateful ideologies but ends up dead because of the lifestyle him and his brother decided to lead. “We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained we must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be by the better angels of our nature”.
Although there were many concepts that were present within the movie, I choose to focus on two that I thought to be most important. The first is the realistic conflict theory. Our textbook defines this as, “the view that prejudice...
Hate is a very scary thing and there is much too much of it in the world. I am an object of hate because I am a lesbian. I had a very scary incident a year ago that will haunt me for the rest of my life.