A social psychological analysis using one of the three approved films listed on the next page.

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A Social Psychological Analysis: Learning to Drive
Introduction
In a time when the society and its government grow wild over a particular group of people, art becomes the best savior that would liberate people from the rapid increase of human atrocities. Over the years, researchers have risen to challenge and condemn the societal vices in the strongest terms possible. One of the most openly condemned vice, especially in the American society which is in fact significantly highlighted in “Learning to Drive”, is racism. Racism refers to the perception that a particular group of people is either superior or inferior to another. This premise underlines that an individual’s moral and social traits are predetermined by the individual’s inborn biological characteristics. As depicted in “Learning to Drive”, racial separation, which is based on racism and implies that various groups of people have to be, segregated from one another shares a close association with racism.
Being significantly highlighted in “Learning to Drive”, racism is an issue that has been in existence for an extended period in human history. In “Learning to Drive”, just like in most cases, racism occurs basing on the discriminative attitude and behavior that individuals exhibit over the other regarding their skin color, customs, cultural beliefs and practices, language, place of birth or origin. Racism has had far reaching effects in the society. In the United States, racism has resulted in slavery, wars, criminal attacks such as the September 11, and the discrimination at work, much of which “Learning to Drive” incorporates.

In most cases, African Americans, Hispanics, and innocent immigrants have suffered from these consequences. As such, a plethora of films and other forms of artistic works such as books have been written and acted to criticize racism alongside the state and the federal laws whose practical implementation has remained a significant challenge.
Thus, “Learning to Drive” shades adequate light over several social psychological themes that pose a substantial challenge to the contemporary society. Despite the excellent capability of the film to exploit the universal themes of love and loss, “Learning to Drive” provides a brilliant analysis of the issue of racism in a contemporary American setting. The entire film assumes an uplifting message regarding tolerance which inspires people to embrace change and difference. The two conforms into the issue of racism which appears to have taken its roots deep after the occurrence of September 11, 2001, attack. “Learning to Drive” demonstrate how the stereotyping has grown too familiar for Sikhs in 9/11-scarred America.
The movie depicts Darwan, a Sikh driving teacher, easily identified in his conspicuous bright pink or blue turban, facing harassment from each and every place he goes. The incumbent car driver is subject to explicit racism when Wendy who appears to be fearful and flustered behind the wheel, hits a different car in rain-soaked Queens. The theme of racism in the movie becomes conspicuous at this point when a group of young men abuses Darwan proudly. The young men call the innocent driving teacher “raghead” and Osama bin Laden.
Nevertheless, the police who are the scene extend the theme of racism by becoming adamantly unhelpful. They collaborated with the group of young men and mutually assume that Darwan is responsible for causing the accident until Wends take over the blame. Nevertheless, Kingsley, who acted the role of Darwan revealed later that he was embraced by the film due to the ability to use Darwan to demonstrate how non-American drivers suffer on the road as a result of racism and racial discrimination. The film came out as the first movie to stage a stage a Sikh character in one of the leading roles of the Hollywood theatric art.
Moreover, it is too painful that most of the Sikhs in the United States have often found themselves as the primary targets of hate-based attacks in the US since the occurrence of the 11 September attacks at the world trade center. Most of the people in the people in the United States have been reported to confuse the turban, which is sacred attire in the religion of Sikhs with the appearance of Osama bin Laden’s headgear. Nonetheless, this harassment continues and affects many Sikhs in the United States.
According to Lewis, statistical analysis revealed that Wade Michael Page, a white supremacist walked into the Wisconsin Gurdwara wielding a handgun and shot six Sikhs who died on the spot. Racism remains prevalent in the United States despite the state and federal government’s efforts at evolving into one of the best pluralistic society in the world. The Sikhs coalition also reported about 60 percent of boys who wear the turban to be harassed in schools, a condition that has worsened since the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
Conclusion
Racism is among some of the leading human atrocities that many innocent American citizens and other immigrants are compelled to succumb as they struggle to lead their life in America. Though comical and dramatic, “Learning to Drive” provides the best example of a real production released to condemn some human atrocities in the American society. The entire movie hides its themes in the divorce depicted by a married couple between Wendy and her husband. Having a sharp-tongued, the incumbent author decides to tell her divorce and her husband’s advice on the importance of her learning how to drive in this fascinating film.