Crash: Culture Shock And Race
The movie Crash incorporates aspects of anthropology such as ethnocentrism, race, and differing roles in society. Each of these aspects is revealed through the lives of different people colliding with one another and according to biases and personal prejudices. The title Crash metaphorically represents the culture shock we experience when we “crash” into people of different nationalities.
Ethnocentrism, the belief in the superiority of one ethic or racial group over another, is an evident theme in Crash. This belief involves judging the world in terms of the values and knowledge of your own culture exclusively. Throughout the film each storyline reveals certain ethnocentric views held by a variety of races. In the beginning of the movie, a white gun store owner immediately pins a Persian family as Arabs and hurls insults blaming them for 9/11. The District Attorney’s wife Jean assumes the locksmith is a gangbuster and blames the car hijacking on the hijackers’ skin......
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