Diversity in 42

In the film 42, we see the perspective of Jackie Robinson and everything going on in his time involving racism, gender and race role, diversity in school, sports, and everywhere pretty much. Jackie Robinson is the first African American to be a part of Major League Baseball, and throughout all the films, books, newspapers, tv programs, we all truly did not see what all were hiding of the truth of how Jackie Robinson dealt or went through all these things and how dismantled the system truly was. In the 1930's Civil Rights groups, communist, Negro Press, and white activist all began campaigns to integrate the game of baseball. It was more or less a type of movement for discrimination in housing, society and jobs. All lead for a federal anti-lynching laws, boycotts against stores who were segregated, marches for blacks to join WWII. A term at the time used by many white shop owner was "Dont shop where you cant work", which created many hate crimes and distruption of those who were colored even just walking the streets at any time of the day.

Many people in matter of time always wish they could go back and live in the 50's 70's and 90's, but do not realize the chaos and harm the people had to go through at those times. Making a difference is something, but living without doing anything is something else as we are raised to accept people and who they are, once given the right to speak freely of our mind, the sky has no limit. Seeing someone struggle, is the least thing we want out of this world, only time and ourselves can make up for the past mistakes and create hope for what has yet to come.

Diversity in Rugrats

In the TV Show/ Films of Rugrats we see the capability of babies living life with each other and their families having fun and growing up together. It isn't until we see the background of each family that we begin to see diversity in the men and women or relatives of each of the children. Tommy, the leader of the babies has a stay at home mom and and his father a Inventor/Architect who struggles to even hold a job while his wife stays at home taking care of Tommy and his friends. Stu Pickles, Tommy's dad has been working in and out as a inventor and could not hold up jobs one after another, we see the diverse of women and men as even Tommy's mom "wears the pants around the house"keeping it in order but not even trying to get a job herself. Later we see the other parents of Tommy's friend all washed up in work some fathers struggling even staying at home, and the mother of Angelica is a lawyer who pushes around Angelica's father as well as she makes more money than him.

Later throughout the series we begin to see more diversity in Race a Black family and a Japanese single mother with children are introduced to Tommy and his friends and the stereotypes began to grow. The Black family appeared to struggle alongside with Tommy's parents but the father had a funny laugh and always made jokes out loud and being the funny one of the group. The Japanese woman with her child was portrayed as her husband being a deadbeat know how women are escorts "Shimushu" in the Japanese culture. All play different roles from diverse in family events, job roles, children growing, environment, it all concluded from the beginning of time how stereotypes and diversity played a big role even in young television shows for children it influenced many young children and families to play the roles of society and continues to grow and lead to diverse roles in men and women in the world.

Diversity in Stand and Deliver

In the film Stand and Deliver, we see the lives of a class full of Mexican American Students, who's teacher does his best to influence each of them to take the SAT and get into a good college, which leads to only about 15-20 kids left in the class, all struggling with gangs, families, work, and each other. Edward James Olmo plays a teacher who see's the lives of each of his student every single day, from gang rivalry fights during school, to physical abuse from events at home and relations of children leading to misconduct between students. The diversity throughout the film in both men and women of Latino race grew to influence many Mexican Americans. The connection of the families, gangs, struggle with school in both the young men and women played a major role of what people actually thought how hard Mexican Americans worked, and created a sense of role of men and women not just in this race but other cultures affected by it. Edward James Olmo did a fantastic job in showing the diversity of both men and women growing to be better in the Mexican Culture rising to expectations and rising to what men and women are meant to do regardless of what anyone else says.

In some events in the movie, we follow a young man named Angel Guzman who is in a gang and his members are in the same class as Edward James Olmo's class which is meant to last for only those who wish to succeed and grow in the program, but eventually he catches onto the members and drops them leading to Angel to leave his gang and his members creating much trouble for him and his reasons to even try to get out of the gang and get a better future. The diversity young Mexican men of being forced into gangs due to the environment is what keeps stereotypical assumptions of all races, creating hope and proof that anyone can change and greater themselves from what there is thought and assumed of them in the world, diversity in men and women will end and there is living poof of it today as many will excel in themselves to change and create a better tomorrow for those who are waiting to change,

Diversity in Zoot Suit

In the film Zoot Suit, we follow the steps of Henry Reyna, a 18 year old Zoot Suiter, who has decided to join the navy and leave his gang. The time is early 1940's, where the diversity in Mexican American's and whites continued to grow as gang affiliated violence grew to disrupt citizens and the law every single day. From the beginning of the movie we see an alter ego of himself, more evil and doing what he wants alongside him. In the film wee see gang violence that leads to Henry Reyna and his gang to be sent to jail, where they are put against the odds and the court, jury, police, are all to get them put in prison for a long time. In the court room, there is already diverse and prejudice toward the Hispanic men who are being falsely charged with murder and must continue to stand down while the judge does not let them speak for what they are being accused of. A woman named Alice, who is a communist Jewish woman, has fought for cases like this involving race, unequal rights, and discrimination of any type.

The Zoot Suiter riots took place while Henry and his gang were in prison, and it created mayhem, sailors would beat men of color for no reason and take their women. While the war was going, in LA the gang and white violence grew, gangs actually wanted to join together to fight the sailors, but pride and respect got in the way regardless of color. As the months progress the case keeps on getting more and more publicity leading it to be dropped. The diversity of religion, ethnicity, appearance, and language each person in the film had was directed to every single one of them. In the end once they were released, the press was confronted by them, and they called Henry and his gang "Zoot Suiters" but the real term they wanted to use against those of brown skin or Hispanics, was Chapaco, dirty Mexicans, to try and drive them out. Eventually, the charges and acquisitions formed were ridiculous enough to be forgotten and ended the Zoot Suit Riots.

Diversity In Focus

In the film Focus, Will Smith is a Con Artist who has a little organization that steals jewelry, wallets, bags, ID's, credit cards and live off it, as their day job every single day. Will Smith is the ring leader in the film, his organization takes place in very discrete areas, moving place to place, Football Games to Baseball Games to Horse Races, where all the people involved in those things have debts to be settled. Throughout the movie, wee see portrayals of both men and women black, white, Chinese, all play a part of this game. From distracting a single person, a group, gambling, lying all for the one good thing they all want which is money. A blonde woman in the film who is Will Smith's right hand, is portrayed a s a beautiful dumb blonde who would attract men and get them to go their apartment with them, then the second inside man would break in and say "That's m wife" and steal the man's ID, Wallet, Credit Card Numbers, all in under one hour so that they can withdraw as much money as they can without getting traced. Another portrayal of diversity in men and women is Will Smith, he is seen at a party being loud, obnoxious, funny, and ready to fight the host, as a diversion. Later he encounters a Chinese Man who he gambles with and they end up wagering up to 2 million dollars, where Will Smith set up everything, to the song they would listen to, where he would be sitting, his hotel room, all ended in the Chinese man choosing one player off the field, and Will Smiths girlfriend had to pick a random number and he choose unwillingly, not even knowing Will Smith had scammed the man for 4 million dollars.

The way men and women worked in this film play in power, loyalty, romance, and crime all lead up to what role men and women are continuously portrayed as throughout time. Con Artist are very well known for what they do and it is still to this say continuing to use stereotypes of men and women to achieve wealth. Yes, people are forced into that type of business, but in film we rarely see the different racial background of people in these films, when was the last time you would see a movie like this involving White Americans, but nope, in this film we also see Drug Lords, Prostitutes, all non American, but different ethnicity than American. This film has a strong portrayal of how men and women are involved as being Con Artist, and it brings back villains being portrayed in different races as well, but it maintains our diversity on who men and woman are portrayed as, continuing to differentiate but still have race diversity in films today.

Diversity In American Me 10/19/15

In the film American Me, the diversity of men, women, ethnicity, appearance first starts off with the Los Angeles where the Zoot Suit Riots took place during WWII. At the time many immigrants and migrants got to LA for the defense effort and new servicemen roamed throughout Los Angeles. Many of the US Sailors and Marines attacked young Mexicans because they saw the way they dresses as Zoot Suits to be more or less unpatriotic and raped, beat, and verbally abused Mexican men and women. From the first scene we already see the father and mother of Santana get into trouble with Sailors as Santana's father is getting a tattoo finished and sailors break into the shop and take Santana's father and drag him into the streets where police officers ad other white civilians would join in and continue to beat him, while his wife was being raped by numerous disgusting Sailors.

Throughout American Me the film is based upon three bestfriends Santana, JD, and Mundo who created the gang known as La Primera. They end up breaking into a store escaping a rival gang and trying to be silent, the owner comes out and shoots JD in the leg. JD, the white one of the group grew up alongside Santana and Mundo was always left out and treated poorly by other people around them just cause he wasnt the same skin color as his hermanos were. After the incident we see Santana and Mundo end up in Juvie where Santana gets raped by another kid his own age, after it happened he killed him, which led to jail time and we see things get more into race and respect stance. Santana's gang grows, in prison Mexican, White, Blacks all control the what goes inside the prison and it conflicts with all of them as one hate crime can cause a total mayhem. When Santana and his men were in each owns cell they passed a wire of cocaine alongside to each other down the cells, and once it arrived to an African American man he tapped it, and took nearly half of the stuff and kept it to himself. Santana's group knew who tampered with the wire so they did what they would do to anyone who messed with their things and killed him. The blacks took it as a color assault and closed down the entire prison causing mayhem, killing guards and led to a stand off of Blacks vs Mexicans but ended in nothing to keep balance as it was not intended to be a act towards race. We see how deepthese guys are in the gang, from learning to live in and out of the prison, going against blacks, whites, asians, and adapting to how every little thing around them will lead to something worse if done wrong. No matter what the race of these people were, all had to learn to survive and react to people and places around them whether they liked it or not, as it was time around WWII if you were not white, everyone was in fear to even walk the streets, the way these people are born into lifestyles that they have to follow and arent able to change is unimaginable, our fear to evolve is what keeps the world to continue to worsen day by day.

Diversity In Rush Hour 10/5/15

In the trilogy of Rush Hour, Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker both have poor representations of Chinese-American and African American throughout the entire movie. The Chinese are known to be very respectful, hard working, and have much wisdom contributing to each other and showing tough love. In the film Jackie Chan is portrayed to have a scratchy voice on the form of a Chinese/Vietnamese man, to be intelligent in Martial Arts, and have high respect. This may not be much disrespect or diversity in the film to the Chinese at first, buy many actors whom are Asian, Chinese, Vietnamese, are told to appear and speak in the form of mockery voices, instead of speaking proper English, many producers tell them to speak or try hard to speak in the Chinese language as if they were telling a joke. Chris Tucker on the other hand is also told to be portrayed as a loud, funny and the good sidekick. Chris Tucker throughout the movie makes funny jokes towards Jackie Chan and all the Chinese people throughout the movie, not so much in a racist way, but in a comedic everything that i say is alright as long as i don't go too far. There are both comedic reliefs towards African American and Chinese American in the movie, such as Chris Tucker pretending to not uderstand Lee and othr side actor and Jackie Chan acting loud and messing around such as Chris Tucker does throughout the movie.

The women in the movies are smart, beautiful, and fighters, the two of the three represent Geisha's which in Japanese culture are to never be known as prostitutes. Of course the producers make Chris Tucker appear as the man who would take some prostitutes in some scenes choosing from many women, multiple in fact to where he jokes around about having them in his hands. In the movie all we really see is Chinese American people, we see the bad guys portrayed as Chinese American smart evil geniuses, the irony of how movies were once portrayed since film started, continues on but not as serious as today, where many movies create comedic relief and irony in every possible way to take away the viewers from looking at the race of an individual.