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Ethical Dilemmas In A Bronx Tale

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All and All, A Bronx Tale was a very overwhelming movie that identifies numerous ethical dilemmas that a person may face throughout his or her lifetime. This movie deliberated on various ethical dilemmas like, Racial, Interracial Dating, Peer pressure, and several more. Even though, the movies focused on various different dilemmas I only focused on two “Racial and Interracial Dilemma”. In society today race and interracial dating is still an enormous topic that many people dislike to talk about. The movie demonstrated and provided moral example of the two topics “Racial and Interracial Dating”. Although, the movie showed that some people are still living in the era where different races should not be treated equally which is very unethical.

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