Reflecting Journal Assignment #2

The topic for reflection is the movie Crash. So tonight I watched the movie Crash. And if you’ve never seen the movie (even if you have) this may sound like a very strange topic for a reflective journal, and since I’m new at this it may be a weird topic. The basis of Crash is a bunch of people that appear irrelevant to each other. The only link that appears to connect these individuals is intense racism. The interesting aspect of this racism is that is of all cultures by all races. Whereas most racism is represented as Whites vs. Blacks this movie explores racism among Whites, Blacks, Hispanics, and Arabs. The subject is extremely touchy but it was very interesting to see how each different race/culture perceived the other. It made you question your own hidden thoughts about these different races. I believe that viewing this movie was an incredible experience and I’m looking forward to the next time I can watch this film.

I feel as though I am a person that can look beyond race, color, and religion to discover the true person on the inside, but I realized from this movie that everyone has hidden racism. No matter what race you are you are bound to think differently in some way about someone of a race that differs from yours. This movie is very successful in having us realize what we may perceive is often completely the opposite of what is the truth, that our assumptions of other cultures differ from reality. With the world around us mixing the different cultures together we wonder if some day we will finally be able to look beyond skin color or language and discover what people are REALLY like.