Racism in Crash

Physical Characteristics and racial differences are distinguishing traits that keep people in our world apart from each other. Crash is a movie that showcases prejudice and racial stereotypes. The movie is set in Los Angeles which is a city with the cultural mix of almost every ethnicity. Crash is a perfect analogy of how the different people intersect with others in society. The movie crash shows differences between the lives of different people. It displays the interactions of several multiethnic groups such as African American, Caucasians, Asians, Latinos, and Arabs. All of the groups are striving to overcome their fears as they weave in and out of each other’s lives. They are all tied by an invisible chain of events, so the movie shows how we all have an effect on one another whether we realize it or not. So the basic premise is that we can not live our lives without crashing into others. The others may all look different and come from all walks of life but ultimately we are all the same. We are ultimately connected and the sooner we realize this, the better society as a whole will be. The opening scene begins with a crash and the statement is made that we don’t touch each other enough, so we have to crash just to interact. We need each other to survive, so connections have to be made. The ultimate goal should be to touch each other’s lives in a positive and lovely way and not to violently “crash” into one another. This movie will make people question their own personal prejudices and each experience that have fueled stereotypes. It will make people think about the internal struggles within their own ethnic group and whether we can overcome our prejudices and discriminations and just see people as simply human beings.

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...n and inequalities is definitely one of the most basic causes of all our racial and social problems today.

The movie revealed so much about our society today. Until we can take the time to understand the roots of personal prejudices and take a hard look at how we perceive things, we’ll never move forward. Films like Crash force us to look outside ourselves and fears of others, to realize that we’re more alike than we actually think. Aside from very small genetic differences between us, we all have similar problems and internal struggles in our everyday lives and that is what makes us human. Nobody is actually the outer shell that we can see, we are more than that. The less we can be ruled by the fear of others, the better our lives can be. The more we develop empathy for people and look beyond race and ethnicity issues, the more we can see that we are all one.