Abstract ‘Crash’, the movie was released in 2005 achieving recognition on a global scale. Racial discrimination in Los Angeles is the main topic of this movie. This paper will cover all social issues highlighted in the movie along with links found with social theories. Introduction Ethnocentrism, racial discrimination, and discrimination are thought provoking requisites. Many questions arise as these terms are pondered and these questions are answered in the context of races and genders. ‘Crash’ involves fear, racism, ethnocentrism and lack of communication. the central idea followed in the movie surrounds fear of being inferior and the power of superiors being enforced upon people from inferior races. Races and ethnicities define these superiorities and inferiorities. Racism affects everyone in a society. These effects range from psychological to sociological. Many sociological concepts have been covered in the movie, “Crash”. The movie was released in 2005. It is characterized as a German/American drama, produced by Paul Haggis. The film highlights racial discrimination in Los Angeles. Sociological concepts include race, social class, ethnocentrism and gender. Plot and themes of the movie are undoubtedly thought provoking and implications of socialist theories given by Durkheim and Marx can be observed in the plot. Sociological Concepts In The Movie Racism ‘Crash’ has strongly highlighted a community, which is multi-cultural and is dominated by two main races, blacks and whites. Since the 50s, whites are obsessed with their anti-black ideology that surrounds blacks being a curse and a threat to the white society. These ideologies have been practically implemented in the movie and numerous scenes show that whites prove to be superior to the blacks. In order to prove their superiority; derogatory remarks, insults, physical and verbal abuse are used against black minorities. Criminal mindedness takes over the minds of these whites to let blacks down to be evidence of their unwanted existence (Sutherland and Feltey 56). Fear Fear has been highlighted as a central sociological concept in the movie. Los Angeles is surrounded by lights and glamour, but fear is in the air. Different races live in Los Angeles and these races are categorized. Some races are ‘superior’ to others causing lack of communication between these races. Communication is not dependent on races and ethnicities but in the movie, fear is because of a lack of communication between this cross-cultural gathering. Thus, fear is cross cultural and based on ethnicities. Black people fear whites, American whites fear Hispanics and Arabs. Violence And Crime: Conflict Theory Derogatory remarks against races and ethnicities can create frustrations that can lead to heightened violence and crimes. In the movie, a storeowner named Farhad with his daughter Dorri, are mistakenly thought to be as Arabs and are insulted, harassed and threatened by the whites. Not only this, racially motivated social groups in the community destroy his store. These insults increase frustration in Farhad and he targets a Mexican American by shooting him, ironically with blank bullets. As no one is injured, this makes Farhad revisits his racially motivated behavior against an innocent man. Here, social theory that comes into action is the conflict theory. This is shown as all violent impulses evidenced by Farhad were because of his justice seeking behavior and to gain power in the