A New perception of AMERICAN HISTORY X

After watching American History X again, I have come to a new perception of why Derek Wanted to leave and change his ways. After talking a little in class after the movie, I seen that Derek felt betrayed by his own people. The seen when he got raped in prison is significant for him but also the way I think about White gangs in Prison. I have researched that the Aryan Brotherhood only sticks with its kind and tries to overrun the prison. The movie though gives me the perception that traders to the Brotherhood has consequences but in the movie, it shows the perception that the Brotherhood that Derek represents isnt what he assumed they would be in the Prison. Derek got mad and disrespected the whites that was already in the prison because he felt that the Whites was doing some dirty shit with all the other ethnic groups Although American History X is only a movie, it gives off an idea to me that The Prison sometimes changes the ideas that people have of ethnic groups and that you have to cope with others to survive in there. On the contrast, I have only researched that jails segregate each other to prevent racial wars. All in all, the movie some times gives off a false interpretation of what really happens in the Prison walls.