Nobody in the world is born racist, sexist, or prejudice in any way. As a person grows older they live through different experiences and hear stories about people they should be aware of. They cannot just block out the warnings and ignore them completely when they do show dangers in the world and precautions that save lives from time to time. People change people. They tell stories, commit crimes, or tell lies to make other people afraid of other cultures or subcultures. People watch others surpass them in life and feel injustice. People see how others treat them with a badge and become corrupt with power. People see heroes making a difference and choose to follow in their footsteps. The film Crash emphasizes this idea that people change through
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Staples made it a point to recognize that women who have a right to worry when walking alone down a road and seeing a man behind them, but he hated how he felt “indistinguishable from the muggers who occasionally seeped into the area from the surrounding ghetto.” Society molded a dangerous view of all black men in most women’s minds and although danger is a possibility, making perfectly safe people feel “surprised, embarrassed, dismayed…[and] like an accomplice in tyranny” makes black men feel like they are not safe. Staples even compared walking around white people and whistling Vivaldi’s four seasons, to relax them, to being a hiker ringing a cowbell in bear country (Staples 404-407). Staples is a great example of how society can change our view on certain races and stain their reputation with the stories of the few applied to the many. The perfect character to go with this article is the car thief Anthony, and while he did change at the very end of the movie, Officer Ryan was a constantly evolving
Staples made it a point to recognize that women who have a right to worry when walking alone down a road and seeing a man behind them, but he hated how he felt “indistinguishable from the muggers who occasionally seeped into the area from the surrounding ghetto.” Society molded a dangerous view of all black men in most women’s minds and although danger is a possibility, making perfectly safe people feel “surprised, embarrassed, dismayed…[and] like an accomplice in tyranny” makes black men feel like they are not safe. Staples even compared walking around white people and whistling Vivaldi’s four seasons, to relax them, to being a hiker ringing a cowbell in bear country (Staples 404-407). Staples is a great example of how society can change our view on certain races and stain their reputation with the stories of the few applied to the many. The perfect character to go with this article is the car thief Anthony, and while he did change at the very end of the movie, Officer Ryan was a constantly evolving