Ethnic hierarchy is the belief that some races are superior than others and therefore some races should be at the top while others should be at the bottom. In Crash, this ethnic relation is shown when the white cop stops a black movie director and his wife for no reason. After finding that the man has a clean record, he asks him to step out of the car, although he had not been drinking. The wife begins to get agitated and decides to step out of the car, the cop decides to search her and ends up groping her and touching her inappropriately right in front of her husband. The husband, afraid to get arrested or shot decides to apologize to the police officer and they are left of with a warning. This shows how a white cops takes advantage of his power just because he was dealing with minorities. Because he had authority and he knew that the victims, being people of color, were not going to do anything to stop him due to fear for their lives. The white cop vs black criminal story is one that is heard all over the country not only once in a while, but very frequently. White cops have been exposed to abusing their power in order to go against people of
Ethnic hierarchy is the belief that some races are superior than others and therefore some races should be at the top while others should be at the bottom. In Crash, this ethnic relation is shown when the white cop stops a black movie director and his wife for no reason. After finding that the man has a clean record, he asks him to step out of the car, although he had not been drinking. The wife begins to get agitated and decides to step out of the car, the cop decides to search her and ends up groping her and touching her inappropriately right in front of her husband. The husband, afraid to get arrested or shot decides to apologize to the police officer and they are left of with a warning. This shows how a white cops takes advantage of his power just because he was dealing with minorities. Because he had authority and he knew that the victims, being people of color, were not going to do anything to stop him due to fear for their lives. The white cop vs black criminal story is one that is heard all over the country not only once in a while, but very frequently. White cops have been exposed to abusing their power in order to go against people of