What Are The Stereotypes In The Movie Crash
Analysis of Crash (option 4)
I believe that the film Crash challenges stereotypes of African Americans,Hispanics, Middle Easterners, and Whites. One of the stereotypes that it challenged was about hispanics being thugs, liars, cheaters and scammers. This occurred in the scene when Jesan said, “Now I am telling you, your amigo in there is gonna sell our key to one of his homies.” We later find out that the locksmith, Daniel, is just as hardworking as any other person and had good intentions for the sake of protecting his family. Similarly, now we tend to always bring up President Donalds Trump famous saying about Latinos," They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with us. They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people," in which he affiliates Mexicans and criminals as one. I'm glad to see this portrayal of a hardworking hispanic man in the movie because like I addressed earlier, the stereotypes about hispanic people are being reinforced by public figures who hold a lot influence to their followers and to see in the movie a positive portrayal definitely …show more content…
Plan the jihad on your own time. What do you want?" is a similar situation to what occurs now, but the stereotypes about Middle Easterners were highly challenged in this movie. Post 9/11, as a country I feel as though we have been profiling Middle Easterners as terrorists and killers and tend to “blend” people from the Middle East as one. This was apparent when Farhad stated he was Persian. In the movie Farhad simply wanted to buy a gun because he wanted to protect his family from any more possible dangers that could occur in the shop he owned and like most Middle Eastern families they pose no threat to society, but because of 9/11, there is a negative stigma surrounding Middle
I believe that the film Crash challenges stereotypes of African Americans,Hispanics, Middle Easterners, and Whites. One of the stereotypes that it challenged was about hispanics being thugs, liars, cheaters and scammers. This occurred in the scene when Jesan said, “Now I am telling you, your amigo in there is gonna sell our key to one of his homies.” We later find out that the locksmith, Daniel, is just as hardworking as any other person and had good intentions for the sake of protecting his family. Similarly, now we tend to always bring up President Donalds Trump famous saying about Latinos," They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with us. They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people," in which he affiliates Mexicans and criminals as one. I'm glad to see this portrayal of a hardworking hispanic man in the movie because like I addressed earlier, the stereotypes about hispanic people are being reinforced by public figures who hold a lot influence to their followers and to see in the movie a positive portrayal definitely …show more content…
Plan the jihad on your own time. What do you want?" is a similar situation to what occurs now, but the stereotypes about Middle Easterners were highly challenged in this movie. Post 9/11, as a country I feel as though we have been profiling Middle Easterners as terrorists and killers and tend to “blend” people from the Middle East as one. This was apparent when Farhad stated he was Persian. In the movie Farhad simply wanted to buy a gun because he wanted to protect his family from any more possible dangers that could occur in the shop he owned and like most Middle Eastern families they pose no threat to society, but because of 9/11, there is a negative stigma surrounding Middle