A Bronx Tale

I think Collogero belongs to many groups. Collogero's major status changes throughout the movie. When he was a kid it was his family. It was his family because, he always did what his father asked him to do. Him and his father were very close, and did a lot of things together. But he always wanted to be a part of Sonny's group and started to be after he witnessed the murder. Then he started hanging with Sonny and his master status started switching back and forth. He wanted to please his father but he also wanted to please Sonny because, he looked up to him.
When he was a teenager it bounced back and forth between Sonny's circle and his friends. Collogero would enjoy acting stupid with his friends and ditch school, but as Sonny put it "your friends are jerk-offs". He would always ditch his friends though for whenever Sonny needed him.

Categories

I believe that categories exist in our society for better or worse.  Categories help us organize information and people may see it as stereotyping but it helps us regardless.  I think though it is easy to turn those categories into stereotypes. An example is that if your African American your more likely to live in poverty than a white man. That is a category but it turns into a stereotype when you see an African American and you assume the must live in poverty.  So when looking at categories we have to be careful not to change them to stereotypes.  We can do this by keeping an open mind when viewing categories and not judging them.

Saliva

It is interesting to me the difference between spit and saliva.  Saliva is in your mouth and is valuable to life.  But as soon as it leaves your mouth it becomes spit and is thought of as vile and nasty.  In reality the only difference is that spit is out of your mouth.  Society has shaped us into thinking that spitting is nasty and wrong.  This is an example on how society has shaped our mind

The Survivors of the F-227

In the survivors of the F-227 the survivors of the crash at the dead bodies of others.  when they came back to there country people were repulsed by this.  When you think about this though it made perfect sense to eat the bodies to survive.  If it had been animals there wouldn't of been anything wrong with it but since its from a human it is wrong.  I think if i were in the same position I would have done the same thing.