CRASH analysis on stereotypes

 

Ethnicity-

Sarcastic, racist remarks that included mimicking of accents. At the beginning, an Asian woman was given grief for her bad driving, which turned into a heated argument where the other woman blamed her height (as Asians are usually short) for crashing, saying she couldn’t see over her steering wheel.

A scene showed how black men are thought to be dangerous or thieves as a woman clung to her husband after she saw the two black men approaching. She assumed they were going to either rob her hurt her in some way because they are black.

There was a lot of ignorance towards people whose first language wasn’t English.

A white Police officer used his authority to intimidate and patronize a black couple after pulling them over. The couple knew that the policemen was superior in that situation so accepted the way they were being spoken to and treated. The police officer had the characteristics of dominant ideology.

A black male, who is affiliated with criminal behaviour mentioned how he would never steal from another black person, only white. This shows how he has love for his own race. It could also show that he takes his anger out on white people as they’re the reason black people have a bad name.

Whilst a Mexican man was fixing a woman’s lock, she said she didn’t feel safe because she thought he was a thug who would give the keys to a gang member to get into her home. She was being ignorant because she just assumed he was a thug and that his tattoos were from prison, which gave her the idea that he would steal her keys. The film showed that he is actually a good man and a good father who moved away from a bad neighbourhood for his daughter’s sake.

Stereotypical black female names were used. A woman named Shaniqua was given the response “of course it is” after she stated her name.

Gender-

After a couple were pulled over by the police, the police officer began to take advantage of the woman. He touched her inappropriately and you could detect that it made her feel uncomfortable. Despite the fact he knew she disapproved, he continued because he clearly thought that it’s what women are for and are used to it. As it was an awkward situation, her husband didn’t know how to respond so ended up standing there, watching her being groped.