The United States is built on different cultures and it all started with the pilgrims coming over for religious freedom. The idea caught on and people from all over the world came for many reasons whether it be religious freedom, running from the law or just to start fresh everyone is from a different culture. In the movie Crash, a handful of people from Los Angeles are struggling with racism, cultural differences and power issues in a time right after 9/11. A few things to know for this paper, enculturation is when a culture is transmitted from one generation to another, acculturation is when a person’s culture is modified through contact with or exposure to another culture, and racism means being biased against another person’s ethenicity.
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They get pulled over by the police and Christine is molested by one of the cops. The cops let Cameron and Christine off with a warning so when they got home, they had an argument about how Christine was treated and that Cameron wasn’t “black enough” to do anything about it. The next day, while Cameron is working, he calls cut on a scene and is very pleased about how it turned out. The producer comes to Cameron concerned about one of the characters who is black, is talking too much like a white guy and wants the scene shot again. Cameron complies, but is very angry about what the producer says. That afternoon, Christine is in a car accident where she is trapped in her car which is upside down and there is a threat of the car catching fire. As fate would have it, the cop who is trying to save her is the same cop who molested her the night before. The cop’s name is John and he uses information power to persuade Christine to trust him and frees her from the car before it …show more content…
People are scared and they react with violence, protests and sayings that black lives matter, blue lives matter, or yellow lives matter but the truth of it is all lives matter. The thing we need to remember, is that we all have our beliefs, there is no right way to believe in something, and no one is perfect so we just need to accept people the way they are and become competent
They get pulled over by the police and Christine is molested by one of the cops. The cops let Cameron and Christine off with a warning so when they got home, they had an argument about how Christine was treated and that Cameron wasn’t “black enough” to do anything about it. The next day, while Cameron is working, he calls cut on a scene and is very pleased about how it turned out. The producer comes to Cameron concerned about one of the characters who is black, is talking too much like a white guy and wants the scene shot again. Cameron complies, but is very angry about what the producer says. That afternoon, Christine is in a car accident where she is trapped in her car which is upside down and there is a threat of the car catching fire. As fate would have it, the cop who is trying to save her is the same cop who molested her the night before. The cop’s name is John and he uses information power to persuade Christine to trust him and frees her from the car before it …show more content…
People are scared and they react with violence, protests and sayings that black lives matter, blue lives matter, or yellow lives matter but the truth of it is all lives matter. The thing we need to remember, is that we all have our beliefs, there is no right way to believe in something, and no one is perfect so we just need to accept people the way they are and become competent