Are american schools like in the movies? (1 Viewer)

[Lilli]

Hey, I have a question. I don't know, maybe it's really silly but anyway. I'm from Sweden and have never been in America or in an American school but I've watched A LOT of American teenage movies... so here is my question; Are American schools like in those movies? You know with the football/basketball team that rules the school and the cheerleaders that are extremely popular and all that... Or is that just a big prejudice?

 

[Ivan The Terrible]

Hey, I have a question. I don't know, maybe it's really silly but anyway. I'm from Sweden and have never been in America or in an American school but I've watched A LOT of American teenage movies... so here is my question; Are American schools like in those movies? You know with the football/basketball team that rules the school and the cheerleaders that are extremely popular and all that... Or is that just a big prejudice?

Hi welcome to Debate Politics! To answer your question it depeands on many things. Such as were the school is located, and what kind of school is it. My school was not. But other schools are. However, don't confuse a movie with a documentary. All of hollywood is fake. Take it with a grain of salt.

 

[Simon W. Moon]

The movies use stereotypes to tell a simple story.

 

[Lord of Chaos]

The movies use stereotypes to tell a simple story.

Define simple.

 

[Real Korimyr #9]

They're pretty much exactly like that, except that the nerds and other outgroups are not treated nearly as mildly as the movies portray. (Apparently, people don't like looking too closely in the mirror.)

 

[Andy]

Really it depends on the school. Sure, there probably are some schools like that, but in my experience the jocks have their own group and keep to their world, and the everyone else stays in theirs. It's not like how Hollywood portrays it.

 

[Morrow]

Girls don't have pillow fights in there underwear, much to my disappointment.
There are no rouge fraternities
High school chearleaders aren't hot and saucy

And drug an alchool use depends alot on the school and it's region.

I went to two different high school and they were worlds apart. Buth niether of them was anything like in the movies or TV. And one was an inner city school.

 

[CaptainCourtesy]

American movies tend to be extreme stereotypical depeictions of what American high schools are like. These depictions are used as dramatic devices in order to tell a story and sell tickets. The things you see in movies do happen, but not to the degree that you see. Jocks can be bullies. Cheerleaders are often popular. Nerds get picked on. For the most part, however, most students have a small circle of friends, have some conflicts with a few other students, and go around pretty much unnoticed by the school in general. It does, to some degree depend on the school, but, for the most part the above is true.

 

[Patrickt]

Are Swedish women all like those portrayed in movies?

 

[Lilli]

Patrickt: Haha not really... in most movies when sweden or swedish women are mentioned it is prejudices made up somewhere far away from here. But maybe it is some kind of truth in it. Don't really know. You have to come here and see for yourself.

 

[Patrickt]

No, Lilli, I'm too old and if all the stereotypes of Swedish women were true I'd be severly depressed to have arrived so late in life.

While stereotypes are never totally fabricated they are also never totally true. My name is Kelly but I don't drink. I grew up in the South in the U.S. and I'm not a racist. I'm an American and I'm not rich.

 

[rathi]

The biggest failing of Teen movies is in portraying every day as exciting. They move between parties, sports games and prom.

The reality is that most time is spend "hanging out" aka doing nothing. The parties and games and proms do happen, they just aren't what most of highschool is about. Sure maybe some urban areas really are that lively, but suburbia is not.

Not Another Teen Movie is probably the perfect example of what the stereotypes are in teen movies.