Stereotypes In The Film 'Gran Torino'

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Lujayn Abdulmajeed
Communications 120
Sep.12th.2016

Don’t Judge Them.
According to the movie “Gran Torino” every step that Walt Kowalski made from the death of his wife till his own death, Walt is not racist. In the beginning of the movie when watching Walt’s beliefs and actions no word will fit him better than racist old man. But as the movie goes by it showed how much of a human he is. I felt it what Walt was feeling giving the fact that I come from a culture that believe in racism, and prejudice. People in my culture group each other based on what each on of them believe in or how they live their own lives, as the book mentioned “Adler remind us of the harmful effect stereotypes can have on intercultural communication:- we evaluate the …show more content…

But, when I came to the US two years ago and saw the enormous variety of people within sin color, race, ethnicity, sex orientation, etc. I learned something about my self that I am not racist I am just used to all these stereotypes that me and everyone else among my culture were born and raised based on these stereotypes. And that is exactly what Walt had. He was born and raised not to like or help people that do not belong to his “group”, he was taught to hate them, judge them and discriminate them, which were obvious with all the situation happened to him with his Asian neighbors at the beginning of the movie. These kinds of stereotypes can destroy culture, culture, and newborn brains that want to approach life with smile and no problems and …show more content…

I am Muslim girl born and raised in Iraq, there is nothing in the way I look refer to being Muslim, no special skin color nor special features in my face or something I wear that tell people I am Muslim. People may think that I am Middle Eastern but not Muslim in particular. However, I make sure that I mention my religion to people I interact with. So, I can filter them out of my life. With that being said, a lot of educated people take that for granted and use it against each other. For example, I thought that the minute I land on the land of freedom I will be free of all these names and group names I have to say before saying my name. However, that was not the case with one of my former instructor that failed me the class when she learned that I was Muslim. Now, I feel sorry for all those young adults that being raised on such stereotypes that might or might not change in the future. Hence, an extension of these stereotypes will with out a doubt lead to racism. The book defines it will be shown either personal or institutional. I can categorize my experience with the instructor in the personal field of racism that “consists of

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