On wednesdays we wear pink.

It is true that society bases popularity and social class on hierarchy. The further up the food chain the more social control you have. Stereotypically, high school is just one example of this classic ‘popularity’ contest. Dispersal of what group you’re in frames the rest of your high school future weather this be bad or good. The more pimples you had during this unfair pubescent era of life the less chance you had of boys asking you out. Being separated or dispersed creating  “A social identity through ethnic nature” (Mung, 2005) you may have been considered  or labelled a ‘desperate want to be’ or a ‘nerd’, these segregation of groups I suppose is normal in high school although it is all fun and games until you meet the ‘plastics’. Demonstrated by Cady Herrin in the famous film production Mean Girls of 2004, it matters what you look like, how smart you are and how much money you have to be placed in the most well-known group ‘The Plastics’. “On Wednesdays we wear pink” is most of the recognisable quotes from this film. It is projected through the use of the ‘cafeteria tribes’ just how segregated high school can be. To ‘fit in’ with a group you must share something in common weather this be interests, culture or anything that can be turned into a “hub of origin” (Kuttainen, 2015).  Similar to High School is Facebook used as the online domicile for displaced people. The underlying stress of how many people ‘like’ your profile picture puts into perspective how much the ‘want’ of needing to ‘fit it’ bothers one’s self. Are we truly becoming a ‘plastic’ for worrying about things like this? How many times does it become annoying until we stop quoting Mean Girls? The limit does not exist.

Ma Mung, E. (2005). Diaspora, Spatiality, Identities. In Bosswick, W., & Husband, C.Comparative European Research in Migration, Diversity and identities. (pp. 33-46). University of Deusto

Kuttainen,V. (2015). BA1002: Our Space: Networks, narratives and the making of place, Lecture 7: Power. [PowerPoint slides]. Retrieved from: https://learnjcu.jcu.edu.au/webapps/blackboard/execute/announcement?method=search&context=course_entry&course_id=_69740_1&handle=announcements_entry&mode=view

Mean Girls [Cafeteria Tribes]   (2013 Nov 23) Mean girls-Cafeteria Tribes. Retrieved from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8M-howDfWE

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