Crash Movie Sociology

Synopsis of Film I selected Crash to watch for this assignment. The movie is centered around different people of different ethnicities living the Los Angeles. A Persian shop owner, an African American detective, with a Latino partner, two young black men who steal vehicles to sell to a chop shop, the Los Angeles district attorney and his wife who are car jacked by them, who also have a Mexican maid. Also, an Asian man who is selling Cambodian immigrants to another Asian, A movie director and his wife, who are pulled over and taunted by a seventeen-year veteran cop, who’s dad is not getting adequate healthcare, and expresses anger towards the black woman over the HMO health plan. A Hispanic family man who changes the locks for the D.A. and

First, was the police profiling portrayed in the movie. Stereotyping an African American or any ethnicity based on color is a negative multicultural issue. Per Farbota (2015) African Americans make of forty percent of the prison population and are more likely to arrested and convicted that any other race and are more heavily policed. Combined, African American and Hispanics totaled fifty-eight percent of all prisoners incarcerated in 2008, even though those two races make up approximately one quarter of the U.S. population (NAACP, 2017). However, in the film showed the bias happening to several races with different socioeconomic levels which is a positive example for the public to watch. Each ethnicity portrayed in the movie, were victims of racism or were participants of implicit and explicit racism themselves. Furthermore, the movie promoted racism negatively with racial slurs. I realize it was necessary for the movie to be as “real” as possible, but calling others names, or blaming one person for 911, or mocking the way another race speaks further hurts those of that ethnicity/race. Moreover, using racial slurs further promotes biases for all ethnic minorities