Stereotypes in Crash

This movies begins with a stereotype. Two officers are involved in a car accident with an Asian woman. The female officer makes fun of the Asian woman's accent. The female officer says "blake" knowing the Asian woman was saying "brake". The next instance of a stereotype was when a white women grabbed her mans arm right after she saw too black people. She automatically assumed that two black people were dangerous. Ironically, the two black men car jacked the white couple, reinforcing the stereotype that black men are dangerous. When the white couple got home they were getting their door locks changed. The man that was changing their locks happened to be Hispanic. The white woman believed that the Hispanic locksmith would sell her house keys to his "homeys". In the movie this woman expresses a lot of that hate because she is so lonely. The next example of stereotypes in this movie is when the black couple get pulled over by the racist cop and his rookie partner. The racist cop takes advantage of his authority by making the driver get out of the car for no suitable reason. When the black man's wife gets out the car things turn for the worst. The cop once again misusing his authority begins to search the black man's wife. As he's searching her he begins to touch her inappropriately and ends up molesting her. As a black man there is nothing much he can do for his wife. If he stopped the racist officer he would've risked sending him and his wife to jail. All the stereotypes in this movie are produced by either hate or fear. Just as the movie begins with a car accident it comes full circle and ends with another accident involving the same Asian woman.