Mean Girls Analysis
The first fact that I found interesting in this film was that if you don’t have a son and you have a daughter in china, people will look down on you because sons are the ones who carry on the family name. The word that I think goes well with this is the word patriarchy. Patriarchy is men-as-a-group dominating women-as-a-group; authority is vested in males. This goes well because if the female doesn’t not have a boy the men will shame them. There are 13 million more young boys in china right now than girls. If women do not have a boy the husbands tell them that they will send them away. It is very hard for women to talk about having a son because of all of the pressure they are under. Another reason people prefer boys is because boys
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The word I am choosing for this fact is blended family. A blended family is a family whose members were once part of other families. People from all over the US adopt from china. Some of the states that were mentioned in the movie that people went to china from to adopt were: Alabama, Texas, and Atlanta. The people in the movie are adopting from a place called Manchung, China. A majority of the girls being adopted come from the country side. The country side here looks beat up, and not a very nice place. The whole adoption process costs 18,000 dollars and takes up to a year to complete. The children may be coming with no medical documents so you do not know if they are healthy or not. Some of the families do not even know who their child is until the day comes where they can go and pick them up. Before getting their adopted children and seeing them for the first time, American families go out and tour China. One little girl says that being adopted can be okay, but you can feel very different at the same time because you look different and talk different. The word blended families go with this because these American families are now adding to their family’s little girls from China who have nowhere else to go. These families are adding another culture to their
The word I am choosing for this fact is blended family. A blended family is a family whose members were once part of other families. People from all over the US adopt from china. Some of the states that were mentioned in the movie that people went to china from to adopt were: Alabama, Texas, and Atlanta. The people in the movie are adopting from a place called Manchung, China. A majority of the girls being adopted come from the country side. The country side here looks beat up, and not a very nice place. The whole adoption process costs 18,000 dollars and takes up to a year to complete. The children may be coming with no medical documents so you do not know if they are healthy or not. Some of the families do not even know who their child is until the day comes where they can go and pick them up. Before getting their adopted children and seeing them for the first time, American families go out and tour China. One little girl says that being adopted can be okay, but you can feel very different at the same time because you look different and talk different. The word blended families go with this because these American families are now adding to their family’s little girls from China who have nowhere else to go. These families are adding another culture to their