Discrimination

In the film, Forest Gump, discrimination is displayed throughout this movie in several ways. We act different from others who we think are less intelligent, handicapped, sick, racially different, have a different skin tone, different religion and different political party. We act towards those who are less intelligent than us to make ourselves feel better. The less intelligent we think know less than we already do know and we feel like they should know just as much and all of us has been put down by several other people who are smarter than us and we think it is okay to finally but someone who is less intelligent than us in the position we once was in. In the movie, Forest Gump was treated differently because of his lack of intelligence. Just because he did not learn as well as other and had a different view of things they did not want him to attend a certain school. Because of the rejection of his acceptance was made, she slept with the principle to to get him into that school. We also act differently towards the handicapped because we also think we think they are "special" as in not on the same page as "regular" people are. We are all categorized into who is different and who is regular. We sometimes also give special treatment to those who are handicapped. We get up from our seats to let them sit or we open doors for them or we treat them with sincerity. Even though those things are not bad, everyone should treat everyone like that. Those who are sick we treat them like they never been treated, we love them and we do not get angry at them as much. We tend to do what they want and we always end up being with them. Because of their sickness, we are scared to loose them and we are scared to never see them again in case of a death. We only want to good memories before a death. But everyone should already treat each other like it is the last day for everyone, because we are not promised another day. We treat those who are racially different and have a different skin tone from us we also treat differently. We treat them differently because of the stereotypes made by others. We are scared or intimidated by them and tend to try to avoid them or we make fun of them not knowing what the outcome will be.