Thursday, May 21, 2009
At first, "Crash" seems like a predictable movie filled with boring and overused ethnic stereotypes. Viewers will not be sure which ethnic group is supposed to be superior. After fifteen minutes of racial bases, screenplay and characters come alive. Their stereotypes are chiseled away and the characters become fully developed. For example: Some of these characters change and perform acts that are outside their characteristics. Racist characters become heroes and the tolerant characters become villains. I couldn't believe that she was the same woman from the night before! Race is a man-made massacre not actuality.
Friday, May 8, 2009
Racism a Myth
Racism may be defined as the hatred of one person by another -- or the belief that another person is less than human -- because of skin color, language, customs, place of birth or any factor that supposedly reveals the basic nature of that person. It has influenced wars, slavery, the formation of nations, and legal codes. But what are we really fighting about we're all biologically built the same. In the Article we read this week the author talked about why it doesn't exist because we as a culture allow it to. When we were categorizing the balls, my instinct was to categorize them by sport, although they can all be used to play any of the sports, are argument was that they are designed for the specific sport. But I think that argument it valid because we were designed for our place in relation to the equator.
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