2001 has a 32% chance of going to jail in his lifetime, while a Latino male has a 17% chance, and a white male only has a 6% chance. Further research shows that in New York City, 80% of the stops made by the police were blacks and Latinos, and 85% of those people were frisked, compared to a mere number 8% of white people stopped and the number might be less than that.
From a period where people of the colored race or the non-white were lined up and matched to the slave auction, to a period where colored and non-white people are the one getting most pullovers and frisking from the law keepers gives people the reality that racism is here to stay.
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In the movie crash, group separatism is clear and evident, by the fact that there is a small China town in Los Angeles, a city where its inhabitants are expected to be modernized and past racial discrimination it shows us that racial discrimination is just far from being completely over. When the two young guys get out of the restaurant angry that they were not served since they were black, it clearly shows group separatism, one of the young men says that they did not get served with coffee as they were waiting for their orders to be taken since they were black yet the other white guys at the restaurant got served with coffee as they were waiting for their orders. This tends to show a form of segregation, they were not given coffee as they were put to a group to people who did not deserve to get a cup of coffee. These three instances ofgroup separatism clearly portray …show more content…
Even though they do not differ a lot, the article "From Rez Life: An Indian 's Journey
Through Reservation Life." Has tried to show that its made up of the cultural pluralism model the movie Crash has little or no instances of cultural pluralism. Cultural pluralism is when a community tries to uphold or try so much to keep its culture alive and the article shows how
Indians in the reserve are trying their best to keep their culture alive. By keeping their culture alive, it means maintaining their native language and its meaning. They start up classes in the reserves that fully teach using their native languages so as to make sure it does not face extinction. “ Waadookodaading has been in operation for 10 years now, as one of the only a few schools generating fluent speakers of the Ojibwe language.” ( Treuer 657). This shows that a stronger sense of culturalism by trying to maintain the culture itself but the end result is that it maintains cultural pluralism.
The movie Crash and the article "From Rez Life:An Indian 's Journey Through
Reservation Life." Both try to send a message by using almost each type of the models of ethnic relations, this should be a perfect mirror of the world, both the minor and the superior races