| I am certain that everybody who reads this has | | | | abruptly demolished. First of all, when two |
| seen the two movies, but I wonder how many of | | | | detectives - Graham and Ria - hit the Asian |
| you have thought about all types of stereotypes | | | | driver, Ria gets very angry and begins talking with |
| and racism that exist in the two and the way | | | | irony and in a racist manner to that woman. The |
| these were treated by the directors. When | | | | same happens with the Asian woman, who |
| looking deeper at the two movies and thinking | | | | actually is the first to attack verbally: |
| about this issue, I observed that there were at | | | | Asian: "She do this! [...] Mexicans no know how to |
| least three types of stereotypes or racism dealt | | | | drive. She too fast." |
| with in both movies:white and black, white and the | | | | Ria: "I'm sorry you no see my lights. [...] maybe |
| others and immigrant and immigrant. | | | | you see over steering wheel, you too!" |
| In the first type of racism, white and black, we | | | | Nevertheless, even if the beginning of the movie |
| can immediately see that one of the main issues | | | | is pessimistic, its ending - with view to these kind |
| is related to the jobs. White consider that black | | | | of relations - is optimistic. Anthony stole a van |
| people steal their jobs, black clergy do not take | | | | and found in it a bunch of "chinamen". As he didn't |
| care of the white people's needs. The second | | | | know what to do with them, he found himself |
| type of racism, white and the others is treated | | | | facing two alternatives: to let them be sold as |
| differently in the two movies and it is presented | | | | slaves or to free them. He chose the second |
| as fear about everything that is different, hate | | | | variant, giving the people watching the film a little |
| because the government spends too much | | | | bit of hope in a change for the better. |
| money with immigrants and the supremacy of | | | | These two movies "American History X" and |
| the whites. | | | | "Crash" had a great impact on the public from |
| Regarding the relationships established between | | | | various reasons, but especially because they |
| immigrants, the tendency would be to believe | | | | appeal to the modern viewer: both movies are |
| that, because they share common experience as | | | | set in modern times, in the same city, Los |
| foreigners, they would get along better. However, | | | | Angeles, California, and share common views upon |
| in the movie "Crash" this belief is strongly and | | | | racism. |