CRASH

So we watched the movie Crash in class. I have seen it before and it is a great film. It ties in great with the end of our unit on race and racism. It got me thinking about racism and where it comes from. We know it isn't biological. Its social, but why do we as a society need to hate? Especially hate people who are different in skin color. I think hate and racism is all rooted in ignorance and fear. If you look throughout history, whenever a group of people or society every meet another group, there is instant fear of that group, because of differences in lots of things. Ignorance breads fear and that fear turns to hate and prejudice. This prejudice comes the social norm and I think it becomes hard to kick those ideas when they become ingrained in a culture. Take the South, racism is still pretty common down there and even in this day and age its hard to get ride of. How do we end racism? I dont completely know, i think education is important and at an early age. Parents also need to teach their children not to hate and to not judge people based on external features.