The Help is a film set during the Civil Rights era in 1963 Jackson, Mississippi, depicting a young white woman who convinces two black maids to aid her in creating a book about the treatment Negro maids endure in white homes, from their own perspective. When they embark on this journey together, they overcome numerous obstacles which ultimately changes social life for women in general. When the book "The Help" is released, not only is Jackson's High Society shown the error of their ways, but they recognize a few personal secrets as well. Needless to say, their community of glass houses come crashing down around them and nothing will ever be the same! The labeling of people into individual races and the succeeding discrimination …show more content…
How do we bring about cultural change?
We should imagine culture as a flow of ideas, which transform [evolve] over time in order to adapt to the ethics and moral values of a specific group. If you keep in mind the "floating" composition of any culture, the process of cultural change is easier to comprehend. But how does it change? Culture changes for two reasons: #1) when a culture is exposed to other cultures, #2) the occurrence of a major experience that seriously affects the entire group.
John F Kennedy said, “Few will have the greatness to bend history itself, but each of us can work to change a small portion of events. It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a current which sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.” Discrimination is an attack on the very core of human rights and it is all too easy to deny a person’s human rights if you consider them “less than”. Discrimination centered on race, gender, age, social class, religion, and sexual orientation, continues in every part of the world. We should fight to exterminate discrimination where ever we encounter it…whether it’s directed to a race of people, like the Negro maids Abilene & Minny, or to women in general, like Skeeter and Celia. We are obligated as human beings to help those who are abused in their homes, as Minny was by Leroy, and rescue the elderly who are abuse by their children as Mrs. Walters was by her daughter Hilly. But first and foremost we must wage war against the seeds of discrimination that exists within our own