Ethnocentric
Consciousness
"The world is full of lonely people afraid to make the first move."
Green Book
In the film, Tony Lip is a vulgar citizen, but he has a flexible mind, good at observing and sophisticating. Due to the pressure of life, he is hired by a decent, elegant, and cultured black musician Don Shirley as a driver and bodyguard, for his two-month-long national tour escort.
Along the way, Dr. Shirley encountered very serious racial discrimination. In this way, two people with completely different personalities and backgrounds, from the beginning of mutual exclusion, dislike each other, to the end of mutual influence, mutual redemption, achieved a friendship across the race and social classes.
Although Don Shirley is rich and highly educated, he was accepted by neither the black nor the white. Don's conflict, loneliness, and restraint deeply down in his heart greatly tormented him. But he never gave up living under the rules, even if they were unreasonable. He always maintained strong self-control and protested in a reasonable way to defend his rights.
Many ethnocentric moments happened in the movie, every race, gender, belief, and religion should all be equally respected, no one is superiors to others. We should have our consciousness to make ourselves worth others' respect
The steward Tony Lip was afraid to make the first move to treat black people like Don Shirley sincerely and respectfully; The pianist Don Shirley was afraid to make the first move to be resentful at those excessive requirements from white people, but both of them greatly change their mind at the end.
Green Book shapes me to not be afraid to make the first move, be a well-bred and warm man, keep an open mind and kindly treat people of all races, believes, religions and genders.