In the movie of Crash and “From Rez Life: An Indian’s Journey Through Reservation
Life,” two of the main models of ethnic relations that were shown was the racism and the complexity between ethnic groups and political. First, the term of racism defined in both of the stories is because from the movie of Crash, the law enforcement pulled the couple over because they were African American and thought they were doing something in appropriate in the car.
When they finally pulled them over, the police wanted to penalize the couples for performing sexual acts in public. Instead, the police harassed his wife because he knew he would not get in trouble for it because he’s going to let them go without giving them a ticket for PLL (Public
Lewdness Laws). This takes a big part in …show more content…
Another event that happened regarding to the racism was when a white couple were on a date and were walking, the girl made a comment as if she was afraid because she saw two African American guys standing that looked like they are capable of doing something to them. That comment indicates an individual’s class, race, and appearances and it ties back to ethnic groups. In similarity, the story of “From Rez
Life: An Indian’s Journey Through Reservation Life,” by David Treuer, the author mentioned that, “Often, light skinned Indians were told they couldn’t belong to AIM or had to march to march in the back.” Author Treuer conveyed this statement as being a mistreatment of Indians.
Once again this reference back to the term of racism. He also mentioned that the government spent millions of dollars to try to demolish an Indian language because of the process of
Americanization. He stated, “Many see this as proof of the spiteful, harmful attitude, the feds have always had toward Indians. But governments really aren’t spiteful just to be spiteful. They are like animals—they do what they do out of self-interest,” this is another example of how