Humans are social creatures, interacting with one another among various cultures, races and characteristics. Humans are able to form perceptions of one another and develop relationships based on personalities, impressions, and inferences. Social Psychology allows individuals to analyze the interactions of people and assess their behaviors and motivations. Crash gives a realistic insight on the impacts of racism across all races and the effects of racist behaviors on other individuals.
Crash provides a perspective on the consequences of racism, illustrating that all races of people are often both victims and perpetuators. Many people assume that racism is created from a blind fear without any legitimate causation to this hatred other than ignorance. Using attribution theory to determine the causation of other people’s behavior, we often focus on the internal causes rather than external. People view racism as an internal attribution, that they are racist due to their attitude, character or personality and avoid external attributions such as the individual being racist because they experienced racism against them and it negatively affected their lives. For instance, in Crash we view a Caucasian male police officer, John, attempting to aid his father who is in need of further medical assistance. John speaks with an African-American woman on his father’s behalf about his medical issue and is denied further assistance. John is infuriated by the response and immediately turns on the woman and makes racist remarks about “her people”. John also informs the woman that his father had previously only employed minorities in his company when nobody else would hire them. The son further explains that shortly after, a bill was passed in order to allow minorities exclusive opportunities for doing business with government agencies and that John’s father lost his company and his wife as a result. John’s experience and knowledge of his father’s...