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Relational Uppers: Miscommunication And Stereotypes
This film represents our culture and relationships in many same ways that still affect us today. Unfortunately this film represents our culture and relationships today as selfish. It shows our culture’s self-concept; the perception of ourselves. Our culture sets a stereotype and we adapt to what others label us. In this film our relationships are weak. The relational uppers didn’t step up to help Cliff’s positive halo. They labeled him through the attribution theory of “explanations or attach meaning to another person’s behavior or our own” (Richard and Turner 67). This represents our relationships from teachers to students not a strong as it should be. The similarities from this film and today consist of miscommunication and stereotyping.
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