Race

This week in sociology we watched the movie Crash. It tied together all of the concepts of race we had been talking about in the past few weeks. A lot of the characters while they were being stereotyped into a certain race were taking offense to it but doing it right back to another race which I found interesting and the more I thought about it, the more I believe that really exists in our society. These people create such harsh judgements based on a persons skin tone or people they surround themselves in and the movie shows how these people are actually very different from the way people portray them. 

I see it everywhere around me people being portrayed in a specific way. Blacks as the bad kids, asians as the smart ones, whites as the good ones and these stereotypes mean nothing. We learned that the color of someones skin does not determine their race and in America we have a very broad generalization for what race a person is. I think it is also unfair to think of these people in a certain way because while there may be a few black trouble makers or a few really smart asian kids, there can also be extremely intellegent and successful people who have dark skin (for example our president) and people from asian descent who are not smart at all. The color of ones skin should mean nothing about their personality, morals or beliefs, something that I feel like the movie we are watching represents very well.