Racism And Discrimination In Film

Victoria Arenas Professor Martinez Film Discussion 2 10 October 2016 Film Discussion 2 Racism can be defined as “the belief that a particular race is superior or inferior to another, that a person’s social and moral traits are predetermined by his or her inborn biological characteristics.” A few forms of racism are exemplified as bias, discrimination, and prejudice. Bias is almost always going against one group because of your unconscious favor to another. Discrimination would be treating someone or a group of people differently because of their category in society in things like race, age, or sex. Prejudice is a preconceived opinion on a specific group of people without having prior knowledge of its truthfulness. A couple of factors play off

He points out how in a case involving a large black male stopped on the side of the road with his hands up against his car was shot but the comments from the men in helicopter above are far more intriguing than the actual story itself. The men begin to comment on how they thought it was “time for a taser” and that he “looked like a bad dude”. The officers in the helicopter we’re already prejudice before the situation due to the fact that they cannot see how the victim below would be a bad man, nothing about the unarmed man looked bad other than he was black, this triggered a sense of fear and predisposed biases. Trevor’s personal experiences play a role in his biases as well, he states that he has never thought a white man would mug him walking down the street, he has never been afraid of white men in a violent way but thinks that white people are afraid of black men due to their violent

An African- Japanese young girl who has identified herself and emersed herself in the Japanese culture is still seen as a foreigner and has had much hate thrown at her for receiving such high honor being crowned “Miss Japan” at the age of twenty. Ariana Miyamoto had been bullied throughout her childhood for looking different, name calling, and race shaming so much that one of her friends who was also a “hafu”, as they call mixed races in japan, killed himself. This inspired Ariana to speak out for “hafu’s”, winning the crown for Japan. She anticipated criticism, and criticism is exactly what she got, although some were happy for her, others took their racist comments to social media and expressed their sarcasm as to how a “hafu” could represent Japan. These discriminatory comments we’re based on prejudice towards other races and their bias that Japan is the best race and if you are not fully Japanese, you have no business in representing