In Mean Girls, the interaction between Cady and her new classmates implies that culture will affected the ways in which they communicate, like the power distances between the different cliques. American high school is a high power distance culture because some cliques are given higher power than other cliques based off of certain personalities and characteristics. For example, all of the power is concentrated on the plastics because of their physical attractiveness and wealth, resulting in the rest of their peers treating them as if they are royalty. This gives the plastics the opportunity to hold a dominance over the rest of the cliques. Beneath them may be the Jocks, then the JV jocks, and then the preps and so on and so forth. The power begins to decline. …show more content…
Cliques are determined based on stereotypes, if you're black, then you're with the black clique, if you're a jock, then you go and hang out with the jocks. A few of the cliques in mean girls included Asian nerds, unfriendly black hotties, jocks, preps, and burnouts. Each clique had their own language, hobbies, and symbols. Janice and Damien taught Cady about all of their different cliques and as she was observing all of them in the lunch room, she was having a hard time understanding where she belonged. Growing up around African Americans, she assumed that the African American clique would be accepting of her, but when she approached them they treated her as part of their out-group and were unwelcoming. Each of the cliques are ethnocentric and unwelcoming of other cliques in their school because they do not fit into their