#To movealong movie#

When I was buying lunch one day, someone was trying to buy lunch but they didn't have money on their card to pay for it so they were going to put it back and not eat anything for lunch.This is positive deviance because he responded the complete opposite of how most people would act to have a positive influence upon someone else. Diaz responds to the mugger with an act of positive deviance by offering both his jacket and later to go out for dinner after he was mugged. Positive deviance is when you go against a social norm in a way that has positive results (especially for others).I really do have respect for those who are living on minimum wage as they work the hardest out of everyone and receive the least in return. It is just flat out embarrassing for the rest of us who are there but on the other hand she thinks that they deserve it as they had done her wrong in some way. No matter where we go out for dinner she always ends up being EXTREMELY rude to someone whether it is the waiter, the host, or the manager. We talked about how people of minimum wage get treated much poorer than others as people above them consider themselves better and therefore privileged to be rude. Even those whose are making it by on their wages still have a very difficult. It is just hard for me to deal with the fact that I am going to be getting gifts while some families can't even afford food. Like in The Pursuit of Happyness, many people get little to no gifts at all. Most of the kids going to the high school are getting numerous expensive gifts for the holidays and many still remain unsatisfied. Another big thing I thought about was the holidays around this time of the year. The medications for my asthma, allergies, etc would take up probably most of my paycheck if I was one this type of a budget.

All of the videos really got me thinking about how living on such a low salary would be. This week we mostly talked about people living on minimum wage.

This realization that races will never see eye to eye was the part that really stuck in my mind. This was horrible in a couple of ways: 1) he spoke way more english than she did spanish 2)she only saw him as a hispanic person instead of an American. She wanted more so she looked at him and said, 'mas'. I also remembered how once at a fancy restaurant when a hispanic man was pouring my grandma's water. She was able to look at my dad and decide that because he is a white male that he is unfair. One example is that once when my family went on the L-train, this black woman started ranting to my brother about how my dad is the one oppressing her and that it is his fault for all the injustice in the world.

#To movealong movie#

This movie made me think of all the stereotypes we make instinctively without even thinking about them and how other people also judge before getting to know a person. It makes me wonder how we are supposed to move for the better if we can't really target our racism and rid ourselves of it. The part that really upset me was that people could not rid themselves of racism, everyone was racist, and many of the people lived up to their stereotype. In sociology we watched Crash, which to be honest both opened my eyes and depressed me.