Sociological Analysis Of The Movie Rudy Robles

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This Movie was very funny, I really enjoyed it. Although it was clearly demonstrating race and ethnicity. I was able to observe the discrimination when Rudy Robles was detained by the border patrol in a factory full of illegal's workers. But what really captured my attention was when Rudy tried to explain to them that he was a U.S. citizen but couldn't prove it because he dint had his wallet where he had his ID. The border patrol response was "all Mexicans look alike". Which according to the readings this is the race theory because the border patrol ignored Rudy and was prejudged as an illegal because of his skin colored and was ignored because they were the minority. Also when Rudy was in Tijuana, Mexico and Jimmy a white guy asked Rudy where he was from and Rudy replied that he was from Los Angeles and he was laughed at. Showing that people tend to look at our skin colored and judge where we from. …show more content…
Where the socioeconomic status as where the rich get richer while the poor stay poor. That's what was exactly what Jimmy was doing, he was using Rudy to get rich while Rudy was staying the same poor and wasn't going to be able to break the socioeconomic because the white guy was superior and should be making all the money. Also, there was a scene where Rudy tried to start a business selling fake green card and it fails. Rudy went back to Jimmy and told him about his business and Jimmy laugh at Rudy as if he was saying "see I told you, you wasted your time" with his laugh, then fallow with "well I have another job for you" I was able to interpret that the film was trying to say that we Mexicans will only be good to work for white people. And we will never rise on the socioeconomic ladder because if we try to create a business, we will fail and end up working again for the White