It is a commonly held belief that there is slight validity to all stereotypes, this is false. All stereotypes are incorrect because they are broad sweeping generalizations that can not possibly encompass even a majority of a certain group of people. For example, it seems to be a common stereotype that women are worse drivers than men. Not true! First of all what is a good driver someone who drives fast, someone who drives slow, someone who drives safe? For arguements sake, we'll say a bad driver depends on accidents and how bad the accident is...Men are more than twice as likely to die in a car crash than women, studies have shown as many as 73 percent of all people killed in car accidents are male. Some of the stereotypes in the movie Crash are, asians are bad drivers, black people are criminals, black people are poor and needed a helping hand up if they do have money, cops are pigs, mexicans are in gangs, all middle eastern people are arabs and terrorists, & that being white is generally better. Sandra Bullock's character in the movie held many stereotypes ...she seemed to hold the belief that all black people are criminals & mexicans are in gangs. In the movie Terrence Howard's character is black and even he seems to hold the belief that being white is better and his wife accuses him of trying to hide that he's black or act white...even when Ludacris tries to carjack the navigator he is stunned to find a black man in the driver's seat which supports the stereotype that black people are poor. None of these stereotypes were true because no stereotypes are valid you cannot take a huge group of people and generalize in any manner with any validity at all. I think I most definately stereotype all the time unconsciously or otherwise and I would find it hard to believe that I haven't been stereotyped before. Stevenson students are stereotyped all the time as "rich kids" but in reality there is a significant population at Stevenson that does not have any money at all. The fight against stereotypes and racism will have to be a gradual battle and the best strategy is knowledge...racism is really just deep seeded ignorance!