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Friday Night Lights Reflection
Friday Night Lights reminds me of the movie, Remember The Titans. It started with the blacks hating whites and whites hating blacks. The didn’t want to play with each other, go to the same school. The blacks had to eat at their colored restaurant, they didn’t feel comfortable playing football with them either but the coaches were not having the racist things on their team. The coaches made them work together and be a part as a team. The first culture i’m writing about is social groups. Social group is explained as two or more people who interact with one another, share similar characteristics, and collectively have a sense of unity. The whole Permian football team had talent and the opportunity to go to D1 colleges to play football, and possibly

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