Mean Girls, A movie littered with stereotypes and generalizations. In this specific scene in the movie Cadie is introduced to the class by the principal welcoming her to America from Africa. Well, Tina Fey, the teacher has never met this student and assumed that the African American student was the new student from Africa rather than the red-headed white girl. This is a good case of a sweeping generalization. This also takes place later on in the movie when one of the plastics makes the statement "Wait, if you're from Africa, then why are you white?" Another sweeping generation. Just because she's white doesn't mean that she cannot be from Africa. This is just one example of a fallacy that occurs in Mean Girls.
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