Analysis Of The Movie Crash

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Crash The movie crash does a very good job exposing how common stereotyping people really is. Many people are affected by this every day. I really hope this movie helped people realize how much they affect people by what they say or how they act towards people just based off of stereotypes. Stereotyping is defined in our book as exaggerated generalizations associated with a categorizing system. Stereotypes may be based on a kernel of truth, but they go beyond the facts at hand and make claims that usually have no valid basis. I think it has become so accepted that a lot of people do it not even knowing. Anyone that claims to never stereotype is just in denial. Stereotyping can range from race, sex, or religion to even where you are from or where you work. It has almost no bounds. The movie jumps around to each person's story so I will group each section into the incidents that each person went through. The first person introduced was the shop owner. His store was robbed so he was trying to purchase a gun to protect himself and his family. He has trouble speaking English so he has his daughter translate for him. The gun shop owner hears him speaking Farsi which sounds a lot like Arabic and immediately stereotypes this man as a terrorist and refuses to sell him a gun. He continues to tell the gun store owner that he is a US citizen and he has every right to purchase the weapon but he still refuses to sell it to him. After he leaves the store his daughter convinces him to sell him the gun. Ever since 9/11, people assume everyone from the middle east is a terrorist which is far from the truth. Later on in the movie the shop keeper is having the lock on the back entrance to his shop fixed. After the locksmith fixed the lock, he informed the shop keeper that it wasn't the lock that needs replaced, but the door too needed to be fixed. Being that the

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