Interpersonal Conflicts Essay

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Interpersonal Conflicts COM 200 Interpersonal Communication February 4th, 2013 Interpersonal Conflicts The movie I choose to watch is Crash. This movie has a lot of interpersonal conflicts that it is hard to figure out which one to choose because there were many conflicts that are not handled effectively. In the beginning part of the movie, Rick Cabot and his wife Jean were car-jacked, and this incident took a toll on both of them but, Jean seems to be having more of a struggle with it than Rick. And on Jean's part, the car-jackers revealed racial bias or bottom line straight prejudice and lack of trust for her. This made Jean very unsettled, she wanted her locks on her house to be changed. Her house keys were attached to her car keys that the car-jackers now have and she felt very insecure that these guys would come to her house. So they had a locksmith come to change the locks on the house, it so happened that the locksmith was Hispanic. Jean got so paranoid that she is now telling Rick that the locksmith now knows where they lived and that he will bring his gang to rob their house. She is pretty much judging the locksmith now because his appearance of a shaved head and tattoos on his body. But the bigger problem here is that Rick is very passive in this conflict, and his resolution is to calm Jean rather than to point out the problem in a way that she is thinking now, which mainly is her bias response towards the locksmith and also the fact that the carjacking was an isolated incident by itself. Rick failed when he did not point out Jean flaw in the way that she is now thinking, which includes her racial bias comments towards the locksmith. Being car-jacked can be very scary, and can leave you traumatize, but it is not something to create a permanent scar and racial tension because the carjackers were minorities. Rick failed in his part to point out Jeans

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