<p>okay, so how many of you have seen the movie "mean girls" ?
i was wondering, as an international student, are most high schools in US like?i mean, with their own "plastics" etc?
and does that continue in college too?
if u went to that HS from the movie, what do you think: what social group would you be a part of?</p>
<p>;)</p>
<p>Oh man..no. Not most high schools are like that. And what social group I would be in..I dunno. Maybe the 'smart' group. :)</p>
<p>Most schools are absolutely not like that. Sure there are cliques (don't know how that's spelled), but they aren't as defined as they are in the movie. Take me for example...I'm a cheerleader, a "nerd," a class officer, and I once was a "band geek." So which group does that put me in??? Movies show people as being completely one-dimensional. Don't buy into them.</p>
<p>I'm very sociably flexible. I don't think I'm able to conform myself to the standards of one group. I'm in chorus, sometimes, but rarely chill with my fellow choir girls. I have tons of ghetto friends that try to transform me. There's the "I LOVE MY ETHNICITY" groups and the... "I"M SO UNIQUE, I CAN"T BE IN A CLIQUE BUT I"M CLOSE TO BEING PUNK" group.</p>
<p>Wow my school is strange.</p>
<p>lol my school has the "I"M SO UNIQUE, I CAN"T BE IN A CLIQUE BUT I"M CLOSE TO BEING PUNK" group too. high schools aren't nearly as cliquish as teen movies portray them to be, in our school, sure you could assume some things about someone based on stuff like where they eat lunch and how they dress. some of these assumptions may be true, many will be really off, but once you really get to know someone, there's so much more. i think most high schoolers realize this.</p>
<p>My school has Plastics, Sexually Active Band Geeks, Cool Asians, and Uncool Asians. But we're not quite as cliquey, minus the Plastics. We also have the Wesleyans. They go to the Wesleyan church and only hang out with people who go to the Wesleyan church, and they wear Chuck Taylors.</p>
<p>I'm not in a clique. And I don't mean that in an "I'm unique and so interesting that EVERYONE wants to hang out with me" kind of way. Eh.</p>
<p>Let's see, I'm in the Russian clique, I'm in the politics clique, the computer science clique and the Asian girl clique.</p>
<p>Now I'm the farthest thing from an Asian girl, yet I'm welcome with them, you'll find people are so much more welcome than any high school movie shows.</p>
<p>My school is extremely cliquey (I don't think this is a word). We have the preps, goths, skater, etc. But there is some middle ground.</p>
<p>For example my "group" the "black, thug, ghetto" group will go to the popular white group's parties, but NEVER to the geek or skater ones.</p>
<p>cc must be the middle ground, i never knew there were "black, thug, ghetto" people here! gasp! jk jk jk</p>
<p>sadly our school only has the "asian boys trying to be black, gangsta, ghetto people" :rolleyes: watch them try to mention their undying love for tupac every two sentences.</p>
<p>LoL! that's the saddest thing ever when people take on the culture of another race, glad i'm not llike that</p>
<p>i mean, i just can't understand y u would do such a thing</p>
<p>as in my clique... i'm pretty smart (in the govenror's school program in my school, only way to take the most AP's) but i hang with people who kinda like to play video games too much, and probably end up being mediocre</p>
<p>personally, i don't care much about my hs, and can't wait to go to college</p>
<p>I guess you could say I'm the exception to most of my friends. Many of them say that I'm the smartest, wisest person they've ever met. (And I'm not even that smart, all of ya'll have better GPAs then I do)</p>
<p>And Deus. Yes, black people do know how to type. Ignorance.</p>
<p>noelb05, i never implied that and i'm sorry if i offended you. my comment was largely sarcastic since all the psuedo-black asian guys here would rather be bludgeoned to death than visit a college messageboard. also, i thought the definition of "thug" included that the person in question would have other priorites. if i'm mistaken, again, apologies.</p>
<p>First I said my group not me. I'm not who my friends are. Just because I'm friends with a __________ (fill in the blank) doesn't make me a ____________. I enjoy hanging around people who like to have a good time and they do. And like I said in my post I'm the exception to most of my friends. Just becasue I'm on the website doesn't necessarily mean I have to be a bookworm or whatever. But apology accepted. No hard feelings, so I'll just drop it.</p>
<p>Take all the races out of Mean Girls and I guess you have my school. My school got less cliquey as the 4 years went on but freshman year there was the stoner (burnout) hallway, the loser/weirdo hallway often had nerds and geeks b/c there weren't many true nerds in my school (not many people in my school went to college), the popular freshman and sophomore spot (it just grew up with them, they never moved), the goths gradually died out after my sophomore year but the punk and skater group grew like mad. The bandos, the theatre people, the smart non-nerds, the semi-popular drug addicts, the ex-popular sluts, the GAVC (vocational school) people, they were all there. There is always that extremely rare have-the-social-mobility-to-talk-to-anyone-but-kinda-hang-out-with-these-people-but-not-really-so-kinda-these-other-people-because-you-got-involved-with-this-group-for-one-semester sort of people. Yeah that was me in HS. But anyways it was easy to label the groups even if everyone in them isn't the same.</p>
<p>There is still semi-cliqueiness at my college but not even close to high school. It is more based on attractiveness and race. The black people all seem to know each other. Same with the hispanics and asians. I was hoping for a better mix of the races. Then pretty girls usually often won't be seen talking to the loser guys and stuff so there are still cliques but they just aren't as bordered or obvious. It is so general and so many people that most people never begin to see outside of their social group to even see which one they're in. There is so many people like them that it is enough friends (and usually diverse enough b/c nobody is exactly like the friends they had in high school) to assume they aren't in a clique at all. So it breaks down into attractiveness and sociability scales. Thrown in interest and race and you have your giant general groups. They aren't cliques anymore. That's just how I see it. Does anyone agree?</p>
<p>okay, so suposedly your school had "the plastics"- how do girls like that usually end up? do they have good grades and get into top colleges or they suffer from a severe lack of intelligence and get married to that dumb jock HS boyfriend right after HS and spend their life working in a local grocery store or something like that?</p>
<p>my school is cliquey, but it's not bad, ie, people aren't afraid to hang out with others. we have plastics but since there are many other groups they're hardly a factor. </p>
<p>and it's been my experience that most plastics are rich, (how else are they going to afford all thier goods without a regular job?) so if they're smart they're prestigious place bound postage paid, if they haven't got a legacy or ability it's Southeast Podunk A&M, and all are sorority bound. </p>
<p>I've never seen a poor plastic. the ones that marry out of HS are the Jerry Springer type.</p>
<p>Everybody is friends in my school, mostly. We do have fake girls, but they are also friends with the gansters. There's no "nerd" group or "jock" group....I basically hang out with cheerleaders, smart people, student govt. people, jocks....almost everyone is mixed.</p>
<p>I found that the "plastics" (didn't really have them to that degree) at our school all ended up looking hardened from their lifestyle and look old and overtan. Not a good look at 19.</p>
<p>if they look bad now they'll look like **** 50 years from now. </p>
<p>all the tanning, chemicals and botched plastic surgeries will have them looking like Jocelyn Wildenstein</p>
<p>my school has some cliques but there is a good deal of "intermingling" between them. what i've noticed is that the people are more separated by classes (i.e. regular, honors, AP) than by group. for instance, almost all of my friends are in at least one or two AP classes and, honestly, I can't think of anyone I talk to on a regular basis who isn't "smart." there are the popular 'smart' girls, then there are the popular 'regular' girls, the geeky 'smart' kids and the geeky 'regular' kids, etc. if i had to peg myself into a group, i would describe it as the nerdy/i-love-the-80s/don't-care-if-i'm-making-a-fool-of-myself group.</p>