Crash

After watching the film Crash, I have begun to realize how crucial a role racism plays into everyday decisions.  For example, when a minority applies for a job, due to the idea of "affirmative action" that person of minority is most likely the person who is going to the job, regardless of the qualifications of the other applicants.  I never realized how present racial stereotypes are in our unconscious decisions, like when we were talking in the seminar, what happened to me as well as several other people is that we would begin to say something or express an idea, and then when we began to realize the implications of what we were saying, we would have to just stop talking.  Before this film, and probably because I live in such an isolated single-minded town, I never realized that there can be racism within races, it's not always a white person slamming a minority.  In the movie, a Hispanic woman and a Chinese woman were fighting over who was responsible for a car crash, and several derogatory terms were stated from both ends.

Racism has changed a lot in the last half century, for example, to the extent of my knowledge, African Americans aren't terrorized in their own homes by organizations like the KKK. This does not mean that racism is not still a problem in our culture.  There are significant links between social class and race that prove that past actions by previous leaders have still not been resolved, and for this reason, stereotypes and discriminations are still very much present in everyday life.

Racism will always exist, although the level of racism may fluctuate with time or given a certain situation (metaphorically because its not quantifiable data).  For example, during the terrorist attacks on 9/11, Muslims were automatically discriminated against in airports, and anybody with a Middle Eastern background was suspected as a terrorist by the general public.  This happened on a greater scale after Pearl Harbor, and anybody Asian was put into a camp and forced to put up with miserable conditions, regardless of the fact that they had been living in the United States for several years or even if they had been born american citizens.  Because the human race is so greedy and its need to dominate will never leave, racism will always be a present factor in our lives, and it will never be completely eradicated.