Examples Of Social Injustice In The Movie Crash

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Question #1- In the context of social justice, analyze the movie CRASH based on what you’ve learned in class about race, class, gender, socio-economic status, stereotyping, racism, discrimination, language acquisition and immigration, both legal & illegal. Give specific examples from the movie.
I think the movie “Crash” is the best movies we have watched this semester. It does a good job reflecting on how society is serotyping many things and how the social injustice exists. Movie basically connects many stories and people about the social issues such as race, class, family, gender, social injustice. At gun shop scene the shop owner does not want to sell gun after he hears Persian man and his daughter talks in their native language. That is just a great example of stereotyping. Because of the language they speak the shop owner thinks it is not safe to sell them the gun but at the end he chooses to do so. In the movie one of the characters is district attorney’s prejudiced wife Sandra Bullock. After she is carjacks she asks her husband to change the locks and she sees a man with tattoos changing the locks and she loudly claims they need to change the locks ageing
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Moreover this concept is still exist, some people still thinks they are better than everybody else just because of their skin color and even though it gets better in time it is still here, in people’s minds and not going away anytime soon. There is also social stratification system based on the wealth people have. While the upper class which consist of only the 5 percent of the public is living the best life and exploiting the lower