Race, Ethnic & Diversity (Movie Crash)

This gender abuse would lead to marital conflict as the Christine no l oner trusts her husband as capable of protecting her , which further leads to Cameron 's feeling of impotence . This conflict would then push him to do something rash such as when he verbally confronted the police who gave chase later in the film

Another gender-themed scene was when the Iranian /Persian father and daughter , Farhad (Shaun Toub ) and Somi (Bahar Soomekh , tried to purchase a gun as a protection for their shop . After Farhad I thrown out after

a disagreement with the store owner because of some racial slurs Somi is left to purchase bullets for the gun . The store owner then proceeds to coat his conversation with her using sexual slurs . Although no physical harassment occurs between the two , the store owner is still guilty of sexually abusing Somi making her feel uncomfortable

This scenes are a direct contrast to the triumph that Kao Kalia Yang has attained in the United States . In her book , the Latehomecomer . She chronicles the journey of her family from persecution in Vietnam to rebuilding a life in America . All throughout her book , her grandmother acted as an empowered figure who held the family together through sheer will . This representation of the gender woman as an empowered figure is hsatterd in both scenes of Crash , revealing gender issues that still plague society

The issue of class was portrayed in Anthony (Chris Ludacris Bridges ) and Peter (Larenz Tate ) have just left a restaurant and are discussing the image of blacks in society and Anthony pertains to their skin color as an identifier of their class . Even though they do not look like goons , the fact that they are blacks and are in a pre-dominantly white part of the city makes them targets...