Race and Crash

Although I missed the first 1/3 of the movie, it wasn't hard for me to catch on to the racism present in the movie. Sandra Bullock's character especially held stereotypes about hispanic people that weren't true. She felt uncomfortable when the locksmith was hispanic and she said that he was going to give the key to his "homies" so they would rob the house. This stereotype wasnt true because this man whether he was hispanic, asian or white is just trying to make a living in America and also not all hispanic people are thugs and have intentions of stealing and drug dealing.

I have been a victim of stereotyping especially because i'm jewish.

I was in Wisconsin at a waterpark with my friends and we were talking to these guys in the pool. All of the sudden one of them turns to me and was like "my mom just told me the funniest joke EVER, do you want to hear it?" I reluctantly agreed expecting it to be some dumb joke i probably wouldnt laugh at instead it was "how do you fit 10 jews in a limo? - 4 in the backseat and the rest in the ash tray" I automatically caught on to the holocaust refrence. and told him I was a jew. He looked like he just met a celebrity. He was like "Oh my gosh Ive never met a jew before" The conversation kind of died down after that and then we got out of the pool and we saw them later and they started throwing pennies on the ground and they were like "don't you want to pick them up? you jew." I was so suprised at how vicious they were. It was my own personal (to a lesser extent) crash moment.