A Bronx Tale

In class we have been watching A Bronx Tale, it is a movie that shows a boy growing up in a Italian neighborhood and how he wants to be two different people. In the movie he struggles to be the son his loving parents want him to be or to be with the mob. The neighborhood is socially constructed by the time period because it is the 1960s and racism is still going around. The neighborhood has unwritten rules that everyone knows about, like don't cross the under path into the black neighborhood, and to not date black women. Even though "C" doesn't want to be racist, since he has grown up around it all his life and stressed by his friends to beat up the black kids that ride by, he accidentally calls his dates brother a nigger. Even though "C" doesn't want to be racist, he has been around it so much that it grew on him. There social contrustion is that black people are not equal to them and dont deserve to ride through their neighborrhodd. Everyone can relate to him because everyone has been brought up with certain beliefs and social constructions.