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Stereotypes In Mean Girls

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We all know the movie Mean Girls, a 2000 teen movie, that starts like a typical “popular girls vs main characters” movie. But at the very end we all learn that stereotyping and being mean to people that are different to you, is no good for anyone. My team and I tried to recreate the scene from “mean girls” in which a girl is asked why is she white if she's from africa, and then the mean girls explain the “type” of persons that the school has. We recreated it with a school, and the new girl was a white Mexican girl.

We did not really needed to change the scene so much because this is already a real problem in the world. The world thinks that all Mexicans are brown skinned and short persons, many others still think that we all wear zarapes all the time. But reality is that Mexico is one of the most diverse …show more content…

In the industry of tv shows the minorities are not seen as something important-as i have said in earlier post- this is the same behind the scenes, minorities are not important for the big industry. But i don't know how they get to this conclusion because, more than the half of the world population is not white. If they want to be internationally recognized directors why they stick to the white male character.

For media it doesn't really matters if the real history was about a trans female black women, because if they make it to the movie theaters, they will change it to just a gay white male. This was the real story of stonewall, when a big group of LGBTQA people from different races in started fighting to get their human rights back. The first release of the movie was this year in september, with almost a 80 percent of white casting, When the real history, was about 70% of people from different races: from black, to latin, to asian. But the director just said, “this is my movie, and I am a white gay men, so let it

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