Both the movie Crash and Treuer’s From Rez Life: An Indian's Journey through Reservation Life discuss the issue of ethnic relations. Even though these works have a different approach to the issue, they are also quite similar because they show how people from different ethnical and cultural backgrounds interact with each other. Moreover, they also show how members of the same ethnic groups deal with each other and their own cultural identity. Both of these works show how the process of assimilation and their circumstances shape the way that different groups observe themselves and their cultural identity and the way they interact with each other which quite often indirectly leads to racism.
In both works the audience can see that the process of assimilation of different ethnic and cultural groups can possibly lead to open and/or latent racism. In order to lead an ordinary life, ethnic groups are …show more content…
The process of assimilation can be an aggressive one and even lead to loss of cultural identity. This is particularly visible in the movie Crash that shows African American TV director. In one of the scenes, he is asked to talk to a black character on the TV set because he is not acting “black enough” However, the TV director does not act like that either because he has become assimilated. He even goes to look for other people that come from the same background to discover who he is. Similarly, in the essay the readers are provided with the information about languages of Native Americans. They have become assimilated into American society. Nevertheless, Treuer claims that that they are losing their cultural identity because a part of the culture dies together with the language. Losing even a part of your cultural identity can most definitely lead to alienation even after an individual has been assimilated into the new culture. In this case, they might feel alienated from their own
In both works the audience can see that the process of assimilation of different ethnic and cultural groups can possibly lead to open and/or latent racism. In order to lead an ordinary life, ethnic groups are …show more content…
The process of assimilation can be an aggressive one and even lead to loss of cultural identity. This is particularly visible in the movie Crash that shows African American TV director. In one of the scenes, he is asked to talk to a black character on the TV set because he is not acting “black enough” However, the TV director does not act like that either because he has become assimilated. He even goes to look for other people that come from the same background to discover who he is. Similarly, in the essay the readers are provided with the information about languages of Native Americans. They have become assimilated into American society. Nevertheless, Treuer claims that that they are losing their cultural identity because a part of the culture dies together with the language. Losing even a part of your cultural identity can most definitely lead to alienation even after an individual has been assimilated into the new culture. In this case, they might feel alienated from their own