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Browse Full-length Non-member TitlesWhen their car breaks down on the way to the Grand Canyon, a Sikh family -- the parents from India and their sons American-born -- find it hard to get help from the intermittent passing motorists. The sons believe their dad's traditional turban and beard suggest a terrorist image to other drivers. Shows the tension between faith versus compromise, appearance versus reality, and prejudice versus one man's struggle to do what he believes is right.
Media Details
Runtime: 25 minutes 37 seconds
- Topic: Counseling and Self-Help, Social Science
- Subtopic: Multiculturalism, Prejudice, Transportation
- Grade/Interest Level: 5 - 12
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- Release Year: 2004
- Producer/Distributor: Carousel Film & Video
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