Film Crash Whether You Agree, Essay

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Black gangsters can be kind hearted and cowards, timid black film directors can face a whole legion of police officers, pro-white police officers can risk their lives with the purpose of saving black women, and righteous white police officers can coldly murder black individuals. The previous sentence basically describes most climaxes in the film.

People discriminate all the time and no one can claim that he or she did not employ prejudice concerning a particular individual at a certain moment in his or her life. However, one needs to know when it is essential for him or her to abandon prejudice in favor of trying to understand and even help an individual. Living in an environment dominated by a single racial group made it possible for me to develop particular thinking concerning people belonging to other racial groups. However, I gradually learnt that one needs to judge people on account of their behavior and their thinking instead of judging them on account of their skin color.


One of my best friends belongs to a different racial group and it never occurred to me that he believed that skin color was a strong enough reason to discriminate individuals. However, he managed to prove otherwise at the time when we were walking down the street and he made a seemingly harmless racist comment in regard to an Asian boy that we encountered. He meant it as a joke, but he did not realize that one's understanding of humor does not necessarily apply to others. The Asian boy was shocked as a result of my friend's remark and came to be stigmatized in school on account of this respective "joke." This enabled me to comprehend that some of the nicest people that you know are capable of destroying the lives of individuals on account of a funny story that they consider innocent......

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