Racial Sterotypes in the Movie Crash

Crash is a movie that had several detailed events of sociological concepts. The movie Crash showed that everyone created has good intentions and good hearts but unfortunately they may grow up and learn the prejudices of the world. "Crash" is a movie that brings out racial stereotypes; as the movie is set in Los Angeles, a city with a diverse race of every nationality. The movie starts off with several people being involved in a car accident. We are then taken back to the day before the crash, where we are shown the lives of many of the characters, and the difficulties they may encounter during that day. An LAPD cop is trying to get medical help for his father, but he is having problems with an African American receptionist who won't give his father permission to see another doctor. He in then turns around and takes out his anger on a black couple during a routine traffic stop. A socialite and District Attorney are carjacked at gunpoint by two black teenagers. The socialite takes out her anger on a Hispanic man who is changing the door locks to their home. After the Hispanic man leaves he is robbed of his dignity by a Persian store-owner.

Crash showed many different elements of the Emile Durkheim theory where norms were used and the characters were confused, unclear or not present. Durkheim's Anomie describes that these Individuals cannot find their place in society without clear rules to guide them. Changing conditions as well as adjustment of life leads to dissatisfaction, conflict, and deviance. He observed that social periods of disruption brought higher rates of crime, suicide, and deviance. Another theory that was shown through the movie was Karl Marx theory called Marxism. Every character showed the different social classe...

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... thieves. They set the societal norms based on their own viewpoints because they are the powerful among their social class.

I enjoyed the Movie Crash because I saw a lot of what goes on in my society today be put on film. It’s a fact that no one wants to speak of the racial discrimination or the set backs we may face because we are of the minority. This film put into film the norms we face everyday that really shouldn’t be classified as norms but the majority and minorities have accepted such behavior. During our lifetime we will all face some type of discrimination because of our skin color, social class, religion, education and the list goes on and on. I believe it is our duty to proactively show each other that we are all the same in the imagine of God and that we should do our best to show peace, kindness, fairness and love to one another at any given time.