I first want to say I have been on vacation, and I apologize for having this turned in late.
1. The cop's racism is a lot like the racism of Sandra Bullock's character in the movie. He stereotypes like with the African American worker when he tries to get medicine for his father and he states how there could've been a better white worker to take her place. Sandra Bullock's character stereotypes the Hispanic locksmith at her house when she says he will give the extra key to his homies. The cop also has to save the woman that he sexually assaulted, so he is working against his racist ways to help someone, and Sandra Bullock's character tells her housekeeper that she is the closest friend she has even though she was being racist before in the movie. The cop has it harder than Sandra Bullock's character because he makes less money and says that being on the police force has made him racist. On the other hand, Sandra Bullock's character has money but just isn't a nice person. My opinion on their racism is just that they are trying to take their frustrations in life out on race because they don't have any other outlet.
2. When the Persian's shop was broken into and vandalized, the vandalizers wrote something about Arabs on the wall, when they weren't even Arabs in the first place. The wife of the owner felt sad, while the owner was angry and thought the locksmith was the reason for the brake in, and then he went to shoot the locksmith to try to get vengeance. The was also the part in the beginning where Ludacris' character and his friend were walking down the side walk approaching Sandra Bullock's character and Ben Frasier's character when Sandra Bullock's character grabbed Ben Frasier's character's arm. Ludacris' character was outraged because she was afraid of them because they were black, yet he then hijacked their car right after.
3. I don't think that 90% of people in America are racist, but there are many that stereotype or judge people by physical features. Many people probably generalize about what people eat, or what jobs people of certain races have. In the movie, the housekeeper along with the locksmith are Hispanic. Sandra Bullock's character thinks that the locksmith is also in a gang because he is Hispanic and has a shaved head. It will probably stop eventually because there are many interracial couples and the number will grow, so there will be many mixes of people, so less generalizations can be made.
4. Stereotypes come from what a race has some history of, so people look at what a lot of people in one race do, and a stereotype is made. For instance, when Sandra Bullock thought the black guys looked dangerous, and they turned out to steal her car. She from then on probably thought every black guy was going to steal her car. There is another stereotype that African Americans like chicken, and the stereotype was probably created just to have something to make fun of what some African Americans do even though lots of people of any race like to eat chicken.
5. It isn't natural to be racist because people aren't born to hate someone of another color or ethnicity. If you look at children, they aren't racist, and if people become racist, it is from their nurture. Friends and family will decide whether or not someone becomes racist. People can only grow up to be racist.
6. Race is learned by the upbringing of someone. The things people see, the views of parents, and the views of friends will help someone learn what race is. Family members may say to keep away from certain types of people, and the media shows crime being done, and people get racial messages because they see what race of people are doing the crimes.
7. It is possible to end racism in the future when there will be many trans-racial people where there can't be generalizations made. Another way is to not have parents say anything about race when raising their children, but that probably won't happen because the racism will stay in the family if people keep being racist. So just time will end racism, where there are many mixes of people and not much to be racist about.
