Crash -

In the movie Crash, the characters come from all different backgrounds. Some are Hispanic, others Asian, Middle eastern, Black and White. Their lives all crash together in different ways and each character has to deal with the racism that he or she might have. One example is when Sandra Bullock's character clings closer to her husband when she sees two African American men walking down the street. The two men mug her and her husband. She mentions later though that she was scared and she didn't do anything because if she had said something or done something, she would have been called a racist. I think that this is very true in everyday life. We see things that happen to others and so we form opinions about what a certain group of people are like. We seem to have this idea that all people from the Middle East are terrorists, that all Asians are smart and math geniuses, and that all Hispanic people are in gangs or sell drugs. These ideas of race are gathered from our society and from what the media shares. We are constantly influence by what we see. The biases that the world has, become our own.