Tuesday, January 29, 2008
"Logical Fallacies"
One of the biggest logical fallacies shown in the movie, “PCU,” is the depiction of social groups. In the movie, we see a preppy social group, a vegan group, a womanist group, an African-American group, and a rebel group. In real life, college does have its separate social groups but they are not nearly as elaborate as the ones depicted in the movie. We do have sororities and fraternities but the people in the sororities and fraternities socialize with other people outside of their sororities and fraternities. In the movie, the groups did not even bother to talk to other students who weren’t in their social group. College really isn’t like that. Students interact with other students regardless of their social status. In the movie, it seems like the students are defined based on what social group they belong to and judge each other that way. The fallacies in the movie depicting the social groups are extremely over exaggerated.
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I agree with your argument. In college there is a wide variety of students, but we don't confine ourselves to only associate with our stereotypes. In my high school certain groups would only hang out with other people in the groups but I think we've grown up a lot and matured, also we all go to college for a similar purpose and this common characteristic allows us to get along with a diverse range of individuals.
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