The movie Get Out came out in February 24, 2017. It’s a thriller movie about a couple of separate races, an African American male and Caucasian female. The girl, named Rose invites her boyfriend to meet her parents in a rural area with odd, mostly white people. Later on, her boyfriend finds Rose’s and her families true intentions. It took a 4.5 million production, and earned $30 million on its opening weekend. The movie has 100% critic rating on rotten tomatoes, which is hard to do.
Although the plot is highly exaggerated and amped up to make it a thriller, It really highlights a lot of important points on racism. The movie brings some important issues that people have been arguing over, since basically forever. Some people think racism oppresses one color more than the other, and some believe it goes both ways. Most people already know, but racism is defined as prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against someone of a different race based on the belief that one’s race is superior. What makes humans think this is okay? According to psychology, the most influential factors include stereotypes, self esteem, culture, privilege, chauvinism (exaggerated or excessive patriotism) biased assumptions, and oppression. According to psychologists, most privileged people aren’t really capable of understanding how racism can affect the oppressed lives, because it doesn’t affect their own so they don’t really consider it deeply. This could explain all the confusion and misunderstandings going on today. According to statistics, if a psychologist comes from a privileged background, the research they conduct could be misrepresented. Many people are aware of this, but even more aren’t. Fortunately, the world has come so far in eliminating discrimination, especially segregation in the public. Since the 1800’s, and the 50’s movement we should be proud of how far we’ve come as humans. However, people are still feeling attacked. Many people don’t realize how one area differs from another in this matter. For example, in some areas, blacks are oppressed, accused and unsafe. In many areas people are accepting of each other. In other areas, whites are the ones who aren’t safe. This move brings up points in psychological views on racism, like for instance how some people are racist and don’t even realize it. http://www.apa.org/pi/about/newsletter/2015/12/racism-psychology.aspx www.psychologytoday.com/blog/handy-psychology-answers/201101/the-psychology-prejudice-and-racism
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