What Does Cracking The Code Mean To Me

The movie I chose for this assignment was the Hollywood film Crash. I really enjoyed watching this movie even though I have watched it previously before. Crash is the type of movie where you need to watch it more than once to understand the real meaning it is trying to portray about racism. There are many acts of racism that is being shown in this movie in different ways through the many characters revealed. In this movie I found there to be a lot of themes that took place, however the top three I felt was most important were stereotypes, oppression, and prejudice. Stereotype is defined as the popular belief about a specific type of individual. In the movie there was a scene with the locksmith was fixing Jean’s locks

It analyses scientific, historic and social information to decipher how and why the myth of race developed. The film maintains that race persists as a category of social difference and inequality even though it is socially constructed and not biological. This is because the notion of race is ingrained in everyone’s brains, even the non-racist brains to conclude there is a hierarchy. The film indicates that race is an idea that we ascribe to biology, as well racial lines justify past and present wrongs; slavery, imperialism and genocide. As well, a lot of scientific work on race was individually and culturally influenced, therefore social differences become naturalized or biological i.e. infant mortality, living conditions etc- even in today’s society we ignore poverty and social neglect of health; not real science. Race does not relate to genetic diseases a way to show that we are able to have or not have

The film encompasses a variety of different themes as well. The issues are all connected to the different prejudices that are found in today’s society. Racism is the most dominant theme that is found in the film. Stereotyping is another theme that is viewed throughout this film. An example of this being when Daniel the Hispanic locksmith was changing the locks for the Caucasian District Attorney and his wife. Jean (the wife) assumes that Daniel is a no good gang banger based on the fact that he has tattoos, a shaved head, and is Hispanic. The film

The hard truth is that we have not come very far in this world with the acceptance of diverse groups or overcoming racism since 1994. Describe specific scenarios in the film which in your opinion address real life interactions between members of the same culture. In my experience we have still have racial segregation in our schools and in our neighborhoods. For instance, when I was younger, I use to live in Cahokia Il.

This movie touches on the biological and social perspectives of racism. The ism’s that was identified in the movie were internalized racism, sexism, classism, and prejudice. The isms were overt in the movie. We felt as if racism and sexism were very prevalent in the movie more so than any of the other ism’s that we identified. For example, in one scene the mother wanted the daughter to get married and not work.

One of Crash themes were Racism and Legal Rights. A persian man goes to buy a gun for himself for self defence the owner of the store (American man) insults him by the way he speaks English and if he lives in America. Owner shows complete disgust towards the persian man due to his accent and race.(06.19 - 06.46 min) Prejudice was also shown when the husband brought a lockman who was Mexican with tattoos and low pants to come to there house to change their knob. Wife sees him and starts mistrusting him as a gang member. Just because he is not White.( 13.14min -14.21) Racism shown when White people think they are superior over Black or vice versa.(47.57 min) also in (1:10.28 - 1:10.31). Terror shown a black lady being molested by a white cop

There are so many different Stereotypes in the world. As a Muslim, the biggest stereotype is that Muslims are see as “terrorist” and I blame the media. The media has played a huge role on stereotypes. The media shows the ideal Muslim as a “terrorist”. It all began on September 11 2001 when a hijacked airliner crashed into the Twin Towers in New York City. Arabs are now called “terrorists” because of the 9/11 attack. Don’t get me wrong, this was very tragic and was very hard for America. Many people died and many families left heartbroken. My heart goes out to all the families. However, this doesn’t define Arabs as terrorist rather it was Osama bin ladan or how some say the government. The media loves portraying as Muslims as terrorists

Since Islam is a religion that promotes peace and kindness, one could ask where the stereotype that all Muslims are terrorists originated. Following the tragedies of September 11, 2001, Arabs and Muslims have been presented as potential terrorists. This idea stemmed from the theory that, “media bias increases when a specific ethnic, religious, or racial group is seen as a threat to national security.” (Stiffler, 2013). Since the attacks on September 11, 2001 Muslims and Arabs have been “hyper-visible” in the media as potential terrorists. Due to the negative media attention and failure of most media platforms to

Its there since the crusades but after 9/11 this stereotyping has increased. These stereotypes and misconceptions about Islam are due to the media, prejudice, and ignorance. Islam is considered as an "extremist" or "terrorist" religion.The reports against Islam are due to ignorance and lack of knowledge.In contrast to what the media portrays, Islam is a peaceful religion, which does not promote violence or terrorism.

After going over the movie selection, I decided to watch the movie Gran Torino (2008). This movie gives its viewers a look at how different people from different cultural backgrounds can have a strong influence on others. Walt Kowalski, an old white American man, who is stuck in his ways and does not take kindly to other races or ethnic groups, but is eventually impacted by Thao and Sue who come from the Hmong ethnicity group. The main diversity issue that takes place within Gran Torino is ethnicity, which in this case there are two drastically different ethnic groups that were influenced by each other (2008). Along with ethnicity, multiple other issue of diversity that took place in the movie such as race, poverty, and religion.

There is so many stereotypes Muslims face. The most common stereotype about Muslims is that we are all terrorist and that we are a part of ISIS. The religion of Islam teaches peace making. Nowhere in the Quran does it state that it is okay to kill people. This is sad because we’re the largest victims of terrorism. The news mainly focuses on terrorist attacks when Muslim Extremists are involved. A research at Georgia State University was done on terrorist attacks they discovered that 11 out of 89 attacks involved Muslims. Those attacks received 44 percent of intense media coverage. Another stereotype Muslims face is many people believe that we hate anyone who is a follower of another religion, especially followers of Christianity. In my opinion that does not make sense because our beliefs are very similar to the beliefs of Christians. We believe in Jesus to be a prophet not the Son of God. He is mentioned several times throughout the

Race is a difficult subject to speak about, but it is essential not to shy away from this significant issue no matter how shocking the truth. No one can merely watch a film and understand racism. However, Paul Haggis develops a film that sheds light on an extremely grim place that still exists in America. One curious aspect of racism in the film is highlighted by characters who try to tear down others to show how their race is superior. Regardless of their skin color, almost every character in the movie has prejudices towards races other than their own.

Because of the diversity of human beings, there will always be differences in the way people operate around the world. A man in Boston doesn’t eat the same food as an Indonesian maid. They don't believe in the same Gods--or any. But while admitting to this fundamental fact of diversity, the producers were able to manufacture an important truth. No matter what skin color, what religion or any other thing you identify with, the producers were able to unite everyone under one singular thing: they were all human beings. Whether this is in one’s personal opinion a good thing--people can bond over a tragic event, like the Duisburg Love Parade disaster or a bad thing--depravity and wickedness are found in all walks of life (or even a neutral stance), the fundamental nature of this fact cannot be denied. In giving us something to bond over, the film contributes to a deeper understanding of the human

Wrongdoing of minorities and racism are terms which sadly go hand in hand. The themes of this movie are the themes of history. I earlier spoke of how these themes echo throughout the movie. We witness love, hatred, suffering, wrongdoing and the ones mentioned above. The themes come ´en-masse´ with terrible reality to them.

Almost one week before I started to take this class, I watched “American History X” for the first time. When I learned we are going to do this project, this movie was on my mind and I did not surprise at all when I saw it in our movie list. Since the beginning of the semester, everything related to multiculturalism in this movie is becoming clearer to me. Multiculturalism is a huge issue, especially the country like the US which has many different races. One of the first things I learned about multiculturalism is; it can be both negative or positive ways. If the different races do not accept each other, it can be interpreted in a negative way. This movie is a great example of showing the negative way of the multiculturalism. I see a really big conflict between races in the movie.