Barriers in Communication

This particular aspect entails a possible bias towards the judgment of the case

Taking the movie Crash into account , racial /criminal profiling can be seen when Officer Ryan together with Officer Hansen followed the Navigator car of a black couple and asked them to pull over . Officer Ryan accused Mr . and Mrs . Thayer of hazardous driving due to performing fellatio while on the road . He then searched the couple for any hidden weapons until it progressed into molesting Christine Thayer . All this triggered when Officer Ryan spotted an expensive car driven by

a black man . He used the performance of oral sex as his justification to inspect them and have them searched mostly using his pre-conceived notion as his basis

This specific scene from the film portrays how racial profiling is deeply rooted from the different stereotypes that are labeled to people The film itself centered on these stereotypes which usually start from small ordinary matters until it resulted to a full-blown violence Stereotype has been defined as .a very limited view of the average behavior in a certain environment . It exaggerates and caricatures the culture observed and unintentionally , the observer .people often equate something different with something wrong (Trompenaars Turner , 1998 ,

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This can be considered as the very root of discrimination for - just as presented in the film - it processes an ideology which delimits people a particular label . Stereotypes , the moment that it is established will constitute attitudes that will later on turn into a behavior . Perhaps one of the attitudes that is mostly with stereotype is prejudice . It can be perceived as the result of stereotype . To be more specific , prejudice is seen as a readiness to act , stemming from a negative feeling , often predicated upon a fixed over-generalization or into a behavior , can be seen...