Monday, March 06, 2006

Crash - A view into the future of the world?

Just watched the movie Crash yday...For those who haven’t watched it, it describes the lives of all the communities in LA ,the boiling pot(instead of the melting pot it should have been) of all cultures and races of the world...It shows how we are scared and wary of people from other races and are prejudiced against them. The black are gangstas, the mexicans are rapists, the chinese are always looking to trick you, All arabs are terrorists etc etc etc...However hard we try to get these prejudices out we are not able to....This the basis of the movie, which is woven around a murder story and how each of the these communities interact with each other especially in tense situations....

Some how I feel this is how the world is going to be a couple of decades down the line. People are leaving their home countries to go and work in places which they presume are going to be their way to great richness and self sufficiency....but everyone has also made presumptions abt the people from different places through the huge exposure to the world happenings- Internet and Cable influence our opinions, No they MAKE our opinions....What will happen when we have to trust these other communities in the course of our lives as no one can live in isolation anymore in this "globalised world"? This is a question that needs to be addressed urgently...We can't have generalizations made for a particular kind of people....All are individuals and have their own identities...Forget the color of the skin and the slanting of the eyes and the incomprehensible accents and understand the person behind all this....Then and only then will we live in a truly globalised and a single world 50 years from now....Like they say, beware Geography is gonna be History!!!!!!!!!!

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