Are you racist? I like to think I'm not. However, society breeds certain mentalities in everyone and depending on how successful society is on this front the degree to which we generalize people because of their ethnicity, social status, or other attribute could be great or small. These sweeping oversimplifications of people are the cause of severe issues within society; but how do we keep from falling into racial discrimination patterns? There are ways to peacefully fight discriminatory tendencies that we face every day in America; Paul Haggis's Crash displays how this behavior perpetuates, often starting with a small action perceived in a negative way and continuing to grow in consequence and vibrancy, as well as how it can be solved, by not reacting to such negativity and therefore ending it or transforming a negative interaction into a positive consequence of that action.
Perpetuation is the easier and ergo more natural response to discrimination than stopping it. The......
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