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Stereotypes can be used to deny individuals respect or legitimacy based on their membership in that group.
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In Material Girls movie, the writer shows that there are some characteristics that owned by Ava dan Tanzie who play as two main characters in
Material Girl movie, which is represented whole of the characters of white people there are: the stereotype, social life and characteristic.
B. The Description of Ava and Tanzie
In the Material Girl movie, the writer wants to show the stereotype, the social live, the individual and the characteristic of white skin that showed in
Material Girl movie. Most Europeans identify themselves as white and occupy the same human physical characteristics. The most notable trait describing people
who identify as white is light skin, thin hair, and narrow noses. People with lighter phenotypes tend to classify themselves and be classified by others in the
white category.
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1. Appearance
Actually, two main characters in Material Girls movie have a characteristic which is not different from white people but white people have
physical matter that they have different than other people, we can see from the
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http:en.wikipedia.orgwikiStereotype
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http:en.wikipedia.orgwikiWhitepeopleAppearance accessed on 4-02-2010
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hair, eye and skin complexion. In this topic the writer wants to explain step by step about the hair, eye and the skin.
Generally, white girls have flaxen haired. In the Material Girl movie that director wants to show or describe the physical of the white girl in his
movie especially in America, because in the play of the main characters are girls. For the detail, the writer shows the picture below.
Picture 1 Tanzie gets a ring from her boy friend
From the picture above, two major characters have different the hair style. We can see in those characters that hairs are flaxen haired but deferent
fashion of the hair. They want their hair look good and different each others because live style is important for making their life more comfortable. Every
people in this world have different skin, hair and eye. Asian have brown eyes but the writer do not do research for Asian people.
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Actually, the writer wants to do research on white girls especially in America. In the Material Girls movie two the main characters Ava and Tanzie
have beautiful royal blue eyes.
Picture 2 Tanzie negotiates to policemen
If we more intensive see to the picture above that Ava and Tanzie we can call them as blue-eyes girl. The major characters in this film have the
beautiful blue-eyes that describe as white people in general. Commonly, many white people have beautiful blue-eyes. It means the major female characters
describe white people and it can be seen from both of their eyes. In the movie of Material Girls the writer sees also that the two major
characters have fair complexion skin color is a quantitative trait that varies continuously on a gradient from dark to light, white people are archetypically
distinguished by light skin
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. It is because they are American people. White
people in American English also Caucasian, see White American a term which usually refers to human beings characterized, at least in part, by the
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light pigmentation of their skin. Rather than a straightforward description of skin color, the term white also functions as a color terminology for race, often
referring narrowly to people claiming ancestry exclusively from Europe.
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Mostly in America there are many people have fair complexion. Base on the theory of representative that some groups or individual can represent a
community or nation. So the writer concludes that Ava and Tanzie described as the character of white people especially in America because they fit the
characteristic of white people. In film Material Girls the manager describes
how whites to like to do treatment for their skin, like facials, pampers their body. In this films both of the figures pampers their face with masker. How
the importance of facial for woman can be seen from scene which is describes them put masker of rose water with tea tree oil and avocados on their face.
Pictures 3 and 4 Ava and Tanzie treatment body
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In other scene expressing them to like by doing to pamper their body that is saunas, it’s the function is limber up stiff body and represses their body
that body and face they seen respects
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2. Social Life
