<p>I'm an International and have never been to America. I just watched the movie "Mean Girls". I'm wondering if this film is realistic. Is life in America really like that? Or is everything in "Mean Girls" just the dark side of the U.S.? Are people in American colleges like those in the movie? What about people in elite colleges? When I come to America, will my surrounding be just like what I saw in "Mean Girls"? </p>
<p>I'm very curious to know all of these. So Americans, please tell me the truth. </p>
<p>Do a search for it. This was discussed a few weeks or maybe a month ago. </p>
<p>You can almost never stereotype an entire culture, society or school on a single movie. That's just ridiculous. There will be places that may have an atmosphere like that and others will not. You find that kind of thing outside the US as well.</p>
<p>Yeah. The movie was a caricature and satire of high school. Sure a very mild form of the things you see in the movie are probably true in many high schools, but the movie is not like American high schools.</p>
<p>omg me 2. i think all of my classmates, even the boys, saw it at 1 point or another. they love quoting from it.</p>
<p>not all schools have queen bees where everyone worships them, i know for a fact that we dont; who has low enough self-esteem to? and no, not every American teen throws wild parties; Mean Girls was funny but not necessarily true.</p>
<p>Mean Girls is more like middle school (though not to that extreme). I find that here (in Canada anyways, close enough), most people grow up enough by high school to forget about the clique thing. Of course you'll hang out with people who have similar interests, but nobody hates each other.</p>
<p>Mean Girls is an amazing movie. It's a <em>slightly</em> exaggerated view of the upper-middle-class suburban lifestyle, from the perspective of a 'popular' teenager.</p>
<p>I agree with whoever said that by high school, most people have grown out of the "catty" stage. Most Americans really are very nice, just as most teenagers/high schools are very nice.</p>
<p>But then I live in the South, so maybe I have a biased view!</p>
<p>You will face problems other than your appearance or boy/girl friends at school.</p>
<p>It's not so easy for international students to study in the US unless you are really rich and have connections with people. Don't fancy that the high school life in the US will be perfect or what. I will say that life will be very tough if you are really here to study but not just hanging around in the int'l high schools.</p>
<p>Never saw mean girls, but I know that most of the students I met from other countries seemed to have enjoyed their studies in the US & were able to make good friends & have great experiences.<br>
It's tough to generalize about any culture--do the movies of your country reflect your actual culture & how folks behave? To some degree, yes movies/TV reflect a portion of our culture & you can find it if you look, but you can find so much more if you look for it as well.<br>
For international students & everyone else, "fit" between the student & school is very important, as is being open to new experiences & challenges.</p>
<p>u see, high school life is different 4 everybody. some of us agreed that Mean Girls was somewhat exaggerating; kawaiigirl says its is worse than Mean Girls. so you see, it depends.</p>
<p>We loved Mean Girls. We're homeschoolers and found the stereotypes of homeschoolers to be HILARIOUS! </p>
<p>As far as how the girls acted, it is a comedy about how girls in our culture deal indirectly with each other in malicious ways. This is what "catty" means.</p>
<p>Honestly, I'm a guy and most guys I know thought that movie was hilarious. Sure it had Rachel McAdams and Lindsay Lohan, but it was very funny on top of that. "But if you do touch each other, you will get chlamydia and die." What great writing</p>