The Truth Case

Contact hypothesis is said to be the best and efficient ways to diminish the prejudice among the minority and the majority group members. However, in a psychological term it means it is the preeminent way to improve the relationships among peers that are experiencing conflict. The main idea behind this theory is, the more time a person spends time with the disliked person, the prejudice will eventually go away. In the movie "Remember the Titans" the inconsistency to contact hypothesis was shown earlier in the movie when the two team (the blacks and the whites) were forced to combined powers and play on the same field without being prejudices, but they ended up with hatred towards each other even more. However, along the way the four criteria for successful contact came into picture; it provoked equality within the team when the best player was said to be getting the starting point regardless of their races. Equal status is the first step in reducing racism, to erase the hatred among the groups when both groups are equal on each sides in everything, regardless of money or power. Secondly, to win the Championship, everyone has to work together and change their mindset from the division of Blacks and the Whites to a team in order to win the all the football games to get to the championship. The third criterion of the contact hypothesis was achieved in the movie when they players' saw their peers of the other race as an individual and not as group member. Happened earlier in the movie when Coach Boone made every black student to sit with a white student and interact and get to know their personally information about each other on their way to the camp. To be said, the authority influence the outcome, Coach Boone and Coach Yoast learnt the goodness in each other, which was seen by the players that made such Impact change for racism to reduce, nevertheless, they players also started to get along.