The Importance Of Intolerance In Miss Hairspray

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There were many types of intolerance in the movie as well. Most of the characters in the movie had a prejudgment about the African Americans even before they had met them saying that they are scared to go to their neighborhood thinking that going to a mainly African American neighborhood is dangerous for the “whites” to be in. Most of the characters in the movie had a very ethnocentric look at their culture, and because of this did not want to let anyone on the show who is not like them. Also there was a sense of arm’s length racism taking place in the Corny Collins show. The directors only allowed the African Americans dance once a month on “Negro Day” and think that was totally fine, but once they wanted to dance with the whites on live television, it was not okay. The directors especially uses a lot of redneck racism, saying that kids need to “steer [kids] in the white direction” and insinuating that an African American girl cannot win the title of “Miss Hairspray” because she is African American. Other than things being said in this movie, there are many nonverbal cues that shows what the characters are feeling or thinking. As the dominant group shows their “disgust” of the African Americans, they will scoff and roll their eyes and walk away or …show more content…

Some speech acts include the showing of power from the coaches to the captain, and then from the captain to the players. The coaches are telling the players what to do and how to do it better on the field which shows criticism from the coaches to the players. Once these players start doing better on their plays, the coaches give the players sincere compliments. Speech codes are also used throughout the movie. In the beginning of the movie, the players talked to other players of the same color in a different way than how they talked to a different colored player, and that different from how they talked to their

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