In the movie Mean Girls they showed different was that society works. Some of the statuses shown are subcultures, ethnocentrism, and multiculturalism. The subcultures that can be seen especially in the cafeteria are the plastics, cool asians, jocks, art freaks, and mathletes, and asian nerds. They present that different types of cliques that develop in school and through society as a whole. Another thing shown is ethnocentrism, which is greatly seen through the plastics. They have a burn book where they say rude things about other group of girls because they do not think that the other girls are as pretty or share the same values as the plastics do. The plastics believe that they are the best group because of their ascribed status. They never
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She defies just about every mother expectation normal parents would have. For example, when Regina comes home with her friends, her mom offer them drinks and says if they want she will add some alcohol to the beverage, she lets her daughter get away with anything, just like when Regina and her boyfriend were making out on her bed and her mom came in and asked if they needed any condoms whereas normal parents would have kicked the boy out of their house. Regina’s mom is probably afraid of her just like Cady’s mom is of Cady when she starts acting out throwing wild parties. Cady starts to realize the things she is doing is wrong especially when she tries to hit on Aaron in her bedroom and he says that she is just like Regina. She now understands that all the work she put forth in order to talk to him has been crushed because he wanted someone who is real and not plastic. She even worked up to that moment by talking to him in math class and asking what the date was, but none of that mattered now. Later on, Cady eventually confessed to writing in the burn book that Mrs. Norbury sold drugs and she started to return to her normal self, and in doing so started to earn the trust of Aaron back when he realized she was finally changing for the better. In the end the plastics broke up and Cady and her group grew stronger showing that a society in school can change and learn to live in harmony even if they are not all the
She defies just about every mother expectation normal parents would have. For example, when Regina comes home with her friends, her mom offer them drinks and says if they want she will add some alcohol to the beverage, she lets her daughter get away with anything, just like when Regina and her boyfriend were making out on her bed and her mom came in and asked if they needed any condoms whereas normal parents would have kicked the boy out of their house. Regina’s mom is probably afraid of her just like Cady’s mom is of Cady when she starts acting out throwing wild parties. Cady starts to realize the things she is doing is wrong especially when she tries to hit on Aaron in her bedroom and he says that she is just like Regina. She now understands that all the work she put forth in order to talk to him has been crushed because he wanted someone who is real and not plastic. She even worked up to that moment by talking to him in math class and asking what the date was, but none of that mattered now. Later on, Cady eventually confessed to writing in the burn book that Mrs. Norbury sold drugs and she started to return to her normal self, and in doing so started to earn the trust of Aaron back when he realized she was finally changing for the better. In the end the plastics broke up and Cady and her group grew stronger showing that a society in school can change and learn to live in harmony even if they are not all the