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Cady Heron In The Film 'Mean Girls' By Lindsay Lohan
In the movie Mean Girls, Cady Heron who is played by Lindsay Lohan is one of the main characters in the movie. In the selected scene we see Cady is sitting with the her friend and the popular girls at the school called the plastics. The plastics have a set number of rules that none of them can break, such as what they can and can't wear. Her friend happened to break one of these rules, which resulted in the other girls at the table to get mad and tell her she has to leave. Cady is not able to really say much about her opinion because she knows whatever she says the girls won't like, so she remains silent as they tell her friend to leave the table.
The Spiral of Silence Theory suggests that the more an individual feels their opinion is different
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