Categorizing
In high school people will categorize you by the way you dress. Some categories such as Emo and Goth are looked down upon and yet prep and jock are welcomed. When you hang out with people you get categorized as well. Let’s look at this scenario. If I hung out with preps even though I don’t dress prep I will be associated with them and eventually called prep. Categorizing is probably one of the worst features of highschool. Not because it can be offensive just because others are looked down upon on how they dress. If anything people should be categorized by how they act not how they dress. You can see a prep kid acting emo and yet he is still called prep. Categorizing is a lot like judging people. Either way your saying something about someone that may not be true. Also emos don’t hang out with the preps because the preps think the emos are below them. We should all just be able to hang out together. As one huge diverse family. I may sound like a hippie or some of you might call me gay and I’m not, but the sad truth is how we are categorized comes with restrictions. Like I said an example would be emos hanging out with preps. It’s not gonna happen. I’m not saying we force people to not categorize I’m saying don’t do it and your friends will notice that you don’t and depending on how much influence you have on the friend then they will stop. I dress differently from others because I wear all black, have chains, and studded belts and people categorize me as goth, but I’m not. I may look like it to the naked eye, but I don’t act like a goth. This just proves that even though I act differently than goths do I’m still categorized as a goth and I’m being judged without people even knowing me. People would be able to get along so much better If they would just accept the fact that they can hang out with people who aren’t in the their category. But people won’t accept it because they are too proud and feel they have too much dignity. The only way it can be stopped is the power of influence. If I influenced a prep to hang out with goths he would hang out with goths and let them hang out with him. But if I told him to hang out with goths and let them hang out with him he wouldn’t hang out with them. Not all people will resent other categories, but a lot will.
