Stereotypes in the movie Crash

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Subject Area:Film

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The movie describes how different people undertake various situations in life and how racial discrimination through the various stereotypes affect the society. These stereotypes are portrayed through the characters locating various divisions in the customs ignoring the existing civil and human rights. The film also identifies various ways in which stereotypes can cause distress based on morals, culture and economic differences. The film shows how people in their daily routines and based on their careers relate to one another in the real society and the extent to which their actions affect the people around them with regard to their beliefs. Stereotyping shows the common behaviors associated with different people in the society as portrayed in the movie crush. For example, in the neighborhood when Jean Cabot and her husband are pursued by two black American men, she holds her purse tight and then grabs on the arm of her husband (Haggis 32).

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This shows how women are always viewed as victims of the society due to their weakness. After the incident where she is carjacked by the same men, she advances her anger against the Latino locksmith by claiming that he may be a member of the gang and who is selling copies of her home keys to his friends to enable them to go and burglarize her house (Haggis, 34). Her feelings about the Latino locksmith portrays her weakness as a woman which indicates the process of always being a victim. Farhad, the owner of the store is viewed as a stereotype. " Apart from being a black person holding such a position, she had taken the job from other 4 white men who were also qualified.

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