The movie tells stories about racism between whites, blacks, Latinos, Koreans, Iranians, cops and criminals. The different levels of the rich and the poor, the powerful and powerless are also shown in the movie. The lives of the characters crash against each other. The most people feel prejudice and resentment against people of other groups.
The movie started with a cars accident and argument of a Chinese women, a police and a Latino women. A black cop has an affair with his Latino girlfriend, but never gets it straight which country she’s from and he also calls her a white person when he was talking on the phone with his mother. A mistaken of a white racist cop that he thinks a light skinned black woman is white. He also can’t get …show more content…
Its structure is inequality, completion, power, exploitation, pioneers, and authority. Inequality includes health and family which have unequal about property or inheritance, wealthy and the poor. Competition is in religion or education. The groups that have more power will use their power in order to exploit other lower power groups. In authority side conflicts between president and the power of money or race and ethnicity and patriarchy in the family. People think that social conflict only happen in the war, revolution or other wars but actually it happens in the world every day. In the movie Crash, both the Iranian and the white wife of the district attorney believe a Mexican American locksmith is a gangster and a crook because of his looking outside. The social conflict is not just stop at material and non- material resources, it also is competitions between races, ratio, cultural, political and economic. For example, we can see the police use their power to take control people. White policeman pulled over black couple while they hadn’t done anything wrong. He put his big hand on the man’s wife body to check for weapon, even though he was doing his job but that is not meaning he allows to touch a women in front of her husband. A organization of people who share a common territory, government to server, adaptive social structure adjust their environment ,conflict perspective a society benefit from the society is structure and power struggle effect differently on