Introduction: After ten years, let’s consider the issue of faith again. I suddenly discovered that if any kind of faith, including my belief, can become a stick to beat people and a tool to persecute others. Blasphemy is a crime, and anti-national and anti-traditional, and obscene ancestors are all crimes. As long as you can give a belief that can be faithful without losing your mind, and there is no need to talk about his benefits, I will convert to it immediately--this benefit is much greater than all the other benefits combined. --- Wang Xiaobo
" Everyone is born equal " is the foundation of the United States. Everyone has the right to life, the right to freedom and the right to pursue happiness. This beautiful human rights picture has not been presented in " American x Archives ". Cultural differences, identity differences, and skin color differences have become the construction points of racial conflicts in the film. "American X-Files" is a historical homework handed over by teacher Swinney and Daniel. This homework is not only about the personal record of Neo-Nazi Redek, but also a part of the history of racial discrimination in the United States through a microcosm of the individual. It mainly tells the story of Redk from the youth's interest in racial issues to his father being killed by black people and hating black people to re-reaching black people in prison, and finally deciding to reconcile with black people and with his own prejudice. Daniel was influenced by his brother twice, but in the end, or was killed by the black man. During the growth of Derek, the racial problem has been developing in a tortuous way or the outcome of reincarnation is unknown, but part of the reason why Derek hatred for raciality is biased in multiple identity mechanisms.
1. Cultural identity
Identity identity is a kind of cognition and description of the subject itself. Due to the differences between cultural subjects, the identity of the subject is required. The interaction between cultural subjects leads to the transformation of identity. From a cultural perspective, in the process of individual identification, the power operation of cultural institutions encourages individuals to actively or passively participate in practical activities to achieve identity identification. When Derry was a student, he admired black teachers and was interested in the black ethnographic book "Indigenous". After his father learned about it, he instilled racial discrimination in Derry for the first time. His father's "education" role in Derry led to a change in his identity when his values were formed. He was white, different from blacks and immigrants. My father was shot dead by black drug dealers at work. The role of black drug dealers on Dere has once again transformed Dere's identity. In the interview, the picture also shows that Dere has changed from prejudice against race to racial hatred. Dere followed the arrangements of Cameron . Cameron is the author of the power operation. Cameron deceived neo-Nazi groups such as Derek by consuming racial prejudice from Derek. While trading with non-white people, Cameron encouraged the neo-Nazi persecution of blacks and immigrants. Young people who think about racial ills in one-dimensional way think about themselves as safeguarding the rights of whites and being just an act of justice.
2. Collective identity
Collective identity refers to the choice between cultural subjects between two different cultural groups or subcultural groups. Because of the influence of different cultures, this cultural subject must regard one collective cultural self and another culture as others. As an immigrant country, the biggest obstacle to the United States' road to founding is the complex ethnic issues. There are Indians who were massacred and killed by the Europeans. As slaves, blacks sold from Africa, as well as minorities such as Asia and Latin America, they have a low status in real life. However, in the United States, they paid the same or even higher than the efforts and life of white people with an individual as humans. But after the war, their rights were still ignored by interest groups that held real power.
The United States has been founded for more than 200 years. It has experienced countless bloody conflicts due to ethnic issues and paid a huge price. The difference in skin color automatically divides the people living in the United States into different groups. In the eyes of the neo-Nazi group such as Dere, the blacks represent plundering, robbing white people's resources, treating white people savagely and rudely, and the white people's power is losing.In every Neo-Nazi speech, black people are borers, but racism is not born after all. For teenagers who do not have independent thinking ability, the words and deeds of authoritative figures are their Bible. They classify skin color in race . Without in-depth contact with people of other skin color, they persecut their hatred, prejudice, and after being instigated by powerful figures. The people of color , which is poisonous to society, represents a collection of people of color. In fact, teacher Swinney is kind, the prison inmates are kind, while the neo-Nazi in the prison matches Redk's cognitive values and even hurts him.
Prison is originally the political superstructure . In prison, Derek lives through different groups in the prison - black and white collectives. Subverting his perception of these two groups, which also satirizes these extremist beliefs. Derry began to think about his teacher Swinney’s question. Have you ever thought about living a better life through yourself? In fact, this is the root of racial conflict. The opposition between the two major collectives of blacks and whites is not due to skin color, but the focus of everyone living is no longer to live a better life through their own efforts, but to find external objective and non-essential reasons. Fighting for more additional rights for themselves will result in the reduction of the other party's rights, struggle brings turmoil, turmoil brings hatred, and hatred brings killing. My younger brother Daniel was eventually shot dead by a black man who had an argument. Because of different groups and different races, a small matter would rise to a major event related to the collective sense of honor that belongs to.
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3. Self-identity
Self-identity identifies, emphasizing the psychological and physical experience of oneself, with the self as the core. In Lacan's theory of mirroring stages, children observe their appearance from the mirror and regard themselves as a self-cognitive ideological subject. When his father passed away, his mother took his lover to have dinner with his family. Derek defended his girlfriend and had a fight with his mother, sister and his mother's boyfriend. This is not only a behavior as a boyfriend and the neo-Nazi, but also a safeguarding patriarchy. The death of his father Derek assimilated his identity into an inviolable violation of patriarchy.
Secondly, as the leader of the skinhead party, Redek received a strong response in his speech calling for the persecution of non-white people. This was the first time that Derek's neo-Nazi identity was recognized. The body has white power and Nazi patterns. After entering prison, Redk searched for companions with the same faith through tattoos, and initially used this to successfully avoid the collective hatred of blacks and completed the second identity of the "neo-Nazi" and "skinheads". In addition, after Derek decided to quit the neo-Nazi after he was released from prison, he saw his tattooed body in the mirror. The traces of the neo-Nazi contrast with the belief in starting a new life. Redek in the mirror completed the self-identity identity of a new life and image.
All radical paranoia will always bring harm. Each of us has multiple identities and will get multiple identities. But first we must recognize that we are ourselves, we must have our own values, and every choice we make is to make our lives better.
