Chapter 9 Blog Post #3

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/10/fashion/10Cultural.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

This is an article about how "mean girl bullying" can begin as young as grade school. Most of the time, the bullying starts because one person is different from the "group in charge". Chapter 9 discusses cultural restrictions on civil interactions and how it affects communication between people. People who are similar tend to stick together or form a group, the problem is when they get powerful and dominant. Those dominant group will then reject (and in this case bully) anyone who is different from them. In the case of this article, many of the girls affected by the mean girls wear different clothing labels or prefer different kinds of music. Unfortunately, intolerance is evident in the younger years.