Traditional Thanksgiving Dinner Table Manners & ...

Dining Together, a film about teaching children dinner etiquette, is a powerful example of social conformity and what a traditional American family is supposed to resemble. Gender roles are clearly defined: mom cooks, dad carves. As this typical American family works on dinner table etiquette at Thanksgiving, the children are also indoctrinated into American family traditions as well as social influence and conformity. Family social values are laid down hard with a smile that exemplifies conformity for a Cold War American family.