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Crash was a film I watched because I had it laying around. I had knowledge of the film before that day; the film just seemed to pop out of nowhere. There are stereotypes that people live up to, once one person has lived up to their set stereotype, any outside will assume with ignorance that others can fit in that same stereotype. I know I have caught myself in this situation where I may think I know a person, based on their looks or dress, however I always catch myself, and tell myself "who am I to judge". I feel I shouldn't judge others, I simply don't know them. I could comment behind a person's back, saying they're good for nothing, but it only makes me look bad. It makes me look like I jump to assumptions based on prior data that was probably passed on by someone else, not even from experience. Tattoos can help set you in a stereotype which leads to assumptions of you being associated with gangs, biker gangs, street gangs, some sort of group that is up to no good. I have found myself stereotyping people with tattoos. Tattoos and colored skin would lead to assumptions that the person must have gotten the tattoos from prison, or on the streets. Maybe an assumption that the person is hardcore, or crazy, to stay away from them. But in reality, that person may just be trying to fit in somewhere, not even hardcore, or mean, just lost.
In the film Crash, I found myself getting upset when the black woman was getting rubbed on by the white officer in an improper manner. The officer had no duty to be doing such acts upon someone, especially when the officer sees colored skin as inferior people. The camera was really close to the action when the officer was doing his feeling, I believe that is what got me upset, how graphic, and real it seemed. My mind sped off and leads me to assume this is what happens on the streets, maybe right down the street from my house or yours. It's a horrible thought, that the husband could not have fought back, possibly would have gotten shot and killed.
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