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Monday 19 April, 2010
First starting Grand Theft Auto San Andreas, the first theme presented is the “Us versus Them” mentality; Primarily, ethnocentrism. When CJ first returns to San Andreas, the police frame CJ in order to use him as their lackey. When this occurs the police arrest CJ, frame him, threaten him, and finally throw him out of the moving police cruiser. The narrative does not offer any redeeming qualities to the police officers. Since we are pit in CJ’s perspective, we immediately empathize with his character and believe that we are better than the police officers.
The second instance is when CJ’s gang and the Baller’s gang are pitted against one another. First, the Ballers attempt to gun down CJ’s gang while they visit his mother’s grave. This communicates the heartlessness of the Ballers. Afterwards, CJ must go on the offensive and tag the Ballers territory. Due to the fact that the Ballers are first shown heartless by trying to gun down CJ and his friends at his mother’s grave and following it up with a mission to reclaim your territory and take theirs, Grand Theft Auto San Andreas promotes the ethnocentric mentality through the circumstances that the defenseless should unite and fight back.
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