英语跨文化交际小论文——电影《撞车》

Racial Discrimination from the Crash

【Abstract】As we all know that there are many differences between two different cultures. Through the film Crash, we can see the conflicts between blacks and whites. This paper will centers on the ethnic conflict in this movie.

【摘要】众所周知，不同的文化之间有许多差异。从电影《撞车》，我们可以看到白人与黑人之间发生的冲突。本文将以电影中的种族冲突为中心点展开论述。

【Key Words】culture; difference; crash; discrimination; race

【关键词】文化；差异；撞车; 歧视; 种族

1.Introduction

The movie Crash mainly tells us several stories occurred in Los Angeles among some leading roles participating in a car crash about the topic of racial discrimination. It is a film linked with the backgrounds of the Los Angeles’s culture closely. As we all know, Los Angeles is covered with immigrants from various countries. Different cultures bump into each other and this may make big influence on our daily life. There are many conflicts between the blacks and whites, or even the Asian people.

2.Body

The racial discrimination in this film is obvious. Crash is a film linked with the background of the Los Angeles’ culture. As we all know that Los

Angeles is a city which covered with people from many countries. People from different countries have different culture background. This film told us several stories which happened among American, black people, Mexican and Persian. At the beginning of the film, there are two black people walking in the street. One of the black young man said,“It’s just black people demeaning other black people, using that word (negro) over and over. Have you ever heard white people calling each other “honky”all the time?”From his words, we can see he has a prejudice against white people, like the blacks are biased by the whites. As Jean (the two black men steeled her car) said,“…it was my fault because I knew it was gonna happen. But if a white person sees two black men walking towards her and she turns and walks away, she’s a racist, right?” If you know the history of America, you’ll understand why there has prejudice between American and Black people.

As the action of the black youth, he was too sensitive with the world which led by the white people. He hated to be discriminated by the white people, at the same time, his self discrimination is innate. When faced with the problem of racial discrimination, we not only need to think about the discriminators, but also need to think those who were discriminated. We can’t always criticize the discriminators, because there has many social and historical reasons behind it. What’s more, how to face the reality for the people who were be discriminated is a problem can’t be