Crash

1. The cop- When there was an accident in the beginning he sides with the whites because he is a very racist person and thinks always sides with whites. He pulls over two African American and he goes right away assuming the worst and checks the women for any weapons of any type and makes sure that there is nothing wrong with them before he feels like he can let them go. One more example is just when he discusses different people he is racist in his thought process.
Another person that is somewhat racist is the owner of the store. He store got destroyed once before and then gets a gun to protect himself and he experience racism while buying it. When he hires someone to fix the lock and the person says that he needs to fix the door and then the man gets mad and assumes the worst. Then the next day he wakes up and he stores is all destroyed he assumes it was the man that was supposed to fix the lock. Again he was being racist assuming that the guy did it just because he was African American.
Comparing the two the cop was always racist non stop practically no matter what. The other person only seemed to be racist when the situation got bad like when the situation gets bad. For example he went ahead and hired an African American to fix the lock but once things weren't going so great he started to be more racist.
2. One stereotype was that black people don't tip. Two African Americans were at a restaurant and the waiters assumed this. It didn't make them feel good that just based on the color of the color of the skin they aren't going to tip there cold be people of any skin color that would tip and there could be people of any color that won't tip.
Another stereotype is you cheater. When an African American is fixing a lock and then tells the owner that in order to fix it he is going to have to hire someone else the owner goes assuming that he is African American. This makes the African American feel horrible and he gets really angry for getting called a cheater just for trying to help.
3. By saying this quote he means that when he got embarrassed the other man should feel so bad for him that he should also feel embarrassed. Like when he was just sitting in the car and Terrence had to get out of the car and go talk to the police, Ludacris was embarrassing himself by embarrassing him because he was getting all the blame when really it should have been split by the two of them.

4. Stereotypes most likely come from people assuming that a small group of people all with one similar trait all have a similar feature. For example the stereotype from the movie that blacks don't tip, probably started out by a few African Americans not tipping at a restaurant and then people just started saying generally that African Americans don't tip and it spread and now people just assume it.
5. It is not natural in our genes to be racist. It is a personal decision and you can control it, just like if people can get along with people in different religions. You just have to control yourself and your thoughts and not let yourself become racist.
6. Race is learned through parents and friends when they get asked questions about skin color and then have to explain. People get different messages from family. It depends on what type of family you have. You also get different racial messages from the media based on what you watch. For example CNN versus FOX.
7. It is possible to end racism if people are willing to change and try and make it stop. If people are stubborn and stuck in their ways then it won't get better. Racism has been decreasing ever since the African Americans came to America.

Class

There are many different factors that make up what economic class you are in. One major factor that makes up your economic class currently is the class you grow up in. The wealth right now is so unevenly spread around America. There are people that remain in the same class their whole life. It is pretty hard to change classes because they are are so spread apart right now. In the monopoly game today mostly the class you started out with is the class you stayed in becuase the was no easy way to move up or down really. In the current economy no one has gone up in class from their parents, if anything they have fallen. Sociological factors causing the difference marriage rates between black and whites in the USA could be based on the class they are in and that in that specific class possibly not a lot of people are getting married.

Class

"What a man is depends on his character; but what he does, and what
we think of what he does, depends on his circumstances. The characteristics that
ruin a man in one class made him eminent in another."

This is a quote said by George Bernard Shaw. It is about the different ways that people ask in the world. This week in class we watched a movie about social classes. It explained how different people acted in different social classes. There was this women that took a lesson on how to act like a rich person. After learning she went to a party and just acted like how she had learned so she would appear to be rich and people would treat her like she was a rich person. This is an example of someone trying to act based like the circumstances. Her usual character doesn't act like a rich person does but because she wanted to fit in she tried to act like a rich person. In almost every class there is a standard of how people act. When people were born in a class, grew up in a class and live in a specific class they act like that specific class, but when they hang around with people in a different class most people change their character to try and fit in with the class they are around. Another example of class is that boy from the movie that lived in a trailer. The boy was very unhappy that he lived in a trailer and didn't want his friends in school to know this so at school he wouldn't bring up anything about his home life and he would never invite any friends over. He dressed as if he were in a higher class than he was living in. Whenever he wasn't home he tried to act like he was in a higher class than he was living in.