Guess Who's Coming to Dinner: Video Evaluation
In the video clip Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, We witnessed several characters and their perceptions of a situation. That situation being an interracial marriage. This was done with ‘60's mentality or outlook on the situation. The characters I have chosen to follow are Mr. and Mrs. Drayton.
Mr. Drayton has predisposed beliefs of African Americans. He doesn't believe that a white woman and a black man should be married. He also seems to group all black people in a certain category. Both of the preceding statements would be and example of stereotyping (pg. 78). He also demonstrates the standpoint theory (pg. 76) when he learns of his daughter wanting to marry a black man and tries to talk them out of it. He has his beliefs and he is trying to superimpose his beliefs upon his daughter, wife, and John's mother. He also seems to focus on the negative (pg 80) because he does not seem to believe that any good can come of this......

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Title: Video Eval Guess Whos Coming To Dinner
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