McFarland, USA is a movie based on a real story about Jim White. In the movie, he was a football coach who was fired from his previous job. Thus, he and his family moved to McFarland, a small town in California, to become a teacher at McFarland High School. The plot depicted the experience White had staying at a city that is predominantly Latino. Initially, he was frustrated about his situation, not planning to stay at the city for long and believed that McFarland is only one of his stops. He was assigned to be the assistant coach for the football team, but quickly lost this position due to his going against the head coach and refuse to let an injured student go out to the game. Gradually, he became interested in the fact that many of his students…show more content… When White first came to McFarland, his family was not used to the environment, where people has a certain English accent and mainly speak Spanish, and the food is different. He was not used to the hospitality of his neighbor, as they gave them house welcoming gift that is a chicken, or how his student family invited him to the house and helped him throw a party for his daughter. Furthermore, he had an initial belief that a group of people who rode around in fancy cars belong to a gang. Additionally, White had trouble communicate with his students and getting them to practice as he wish, or assumed that elder generations of the town does not speak English and only speak Spanish. On the other hand, the students and some of his neighbor also held several stereotypes about him, with his being a white man. However, as he decided to create the cross-country team, he had the chance to understand his students better. White learned about his students’ life and how some of them had to work outside of school, and figured out plans as well as offered to help them. He overcame his initial impression and assumptions about the town, and built a strong connection with the people there. In addition, under White’s influence and persistence in helping his students trained in the cross-country team, all seven students earned new perspectives about their life.
