Crash

This week in sociology we watched this movie called Crash. The movie took place in California, where citizens that live separate lives collide in interweaving stories of race and loss. Race was related or interrelated throughout the characters in some way or another. Within the movie, there were different scenarios of people stereotyping each other and making problems because of the stereotypes. The movie taught me that race can sometimes divide even people in racial categories. It also showed me that race can be explicit with some people and implicit with others. When people hear me speak Bulgarian they always ask what language it is, and when I tell them it's Bulgarian, many people are shocked. They say I don't look foreign and tell me it's the same as Polish or Russian. While they may be similar, they also have there differences and whenever I'm out with my mom, they always assume were Polish because we have similar characteristics of Polish people, more or so my mom.