Our presentations made a huge statement about our nation's history. All the ethnic groups in today’s America have gone through discrimination, prejudice, and racism since their start in this country. Especially Native Americans, African Americans, and Asian Americans. Each group suffered from a series of laws that our government forced upon them. I think that everyone realized the key ones that were absolutely absurd. Generally, everyone had put the same ones down with very little deviation from other groups. The funny thing is that we all chose different themes. I think we all realized what was wrong with the laws this country made from then, and what is wrong with today. We have made a lot of progress but we have a lot of ground to break in this still to this day. I think everyone needs to work together to solve this problem, because not one person or small group of people can do it alone. You have to have supporters and you need to have people on your side or else what you are trying to accomplish will not be successful.
I can relate this back to the movie Crash. Not one person is innocent from this. We all discriminate. It is just highlighted because white men do it a lot to get the upper leg in society. As shown in the movie we all associate stereotypes with groups of people. There is not one group in today’s world that is innocent. No one is perfect, so asking for everything to go away, is almost near impossible. But we can make it almost completely perfect to the point that no laws are associated with race, and nothing like this happens again in history.
I strongly agree with Daniel about how it was very shocking when most of the groups had the facts and key ideas even though we all had different themes. I believe, this coincidence occurred because we had little idea about what most races went through in order to gain citizenship. We are also victims of the suffering of these ethnic groups because the history of these ethnic is being erased gradually.
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