in a nutshell part 2

Throughout the year I have learned to keep an open mind with everyone I meet. When the class started I wanted to travel all over the world for my future career, which I still want to do! But sociology has made me realize that there's so much more to get out of the experience of traveling to different cultures. I will meet people with different traditions, food, religion, and even toilets! There's so much to look forward to, and I had no idea every culture had such extremely different lifestyles. I've also thought of now for my future career to possibly become a foreign affairs nurse. This way I will definetly be able to travel, and I will definetly be able to help people from all around the world. My oldest sister Stephanie has moved to New York, and I can't wait to visit her in the busy city. That will be another way for me to compare the people from New York to the people that I know at home. Community service in the class has really made me want to continue working on different community projects in the future. It's a really good way to spend some of my free time, and you get to meet really interesting people. The class has motivated me to get involved, and to be understable about different lifestyles.

Crash

Crash was movie that really showed how everyone creates stereotypes, and some create stereotypes on themselves. I think the pervey police officer was a frusterating character to watch because he is clearly racist against black people, but he ends up hating himself for judging the black race. After he saved the woman that he recently molested from a car accident, you can tell the woman is dissapointed in him because she can tell that he can be a good person if he wanted to, but he chooses to treat the black race with disrespect. Another character I really liked was the one Ludacris played. He's so angry at society for judging what kind of person he is by his race, yet he's following the stereotypes that society creates. His friend was someone who understood that people are all related, and that we're not that different from eachother, but for some reason we feel we have to segment ourselves by race. To help people look past race, we need to start looking at every person as a complete individual. This means we would have to look past race, and be able to listen to eachother with out making assumptions.