Othering: A Short Story

People of the same social class tend to be friends. People of the same level of attractiveness tend to be drawn to each other. Athletes that play the same sports flock to each other. I feel as if often times, we fall ignorant to the real world. Sometimes, I think we close our minds off to possibilities and opportunities just because we don't expand our network and step out of our comfort zones. Everyone has a story. Growing up and going to a private Catholic school, I’ve seen this happen my whole life. The rich kids are friends with the rich kids, and everybody else just kind of coexists. My mom always told me to not be friends with someone just because you share similarities. I have carried this value on through life. By closing yourself off to one group people, you limit your exposure to different experiences. Through meeting other people and people that are different from yourself, you can expand your

How there's others that I can hang out with and thay don't care what I sound like, look like, or talk like.

Without further ado, people don't accept others because of stereotypes. I know this because in the book, The Outsiders,by S.E Hinton, the greasers had to stay on a certain part of town, dress a certain way, and do their hair a certain way. This was expected of them and if they didn't do those things they could be hurt. For example, if they didn't stay on their side of town they would jumped by a soc. This was

In America we are very diverse nation but some still have problems with other races. In the 2010 Census it stated we have seventy-two percent of America is white alone and three percent of America considered themselves white and a different race. (Census, 2010) That means that twenty-five percent of America is another race besides white. When the English came over to America they believed that they were the superior people and those other races besides white were under them. Overtime we have changed our views of race but there are still people that are stuck in their ways. Some people may not say they are racist but may see another race and act differently. In policing we call it racial profiling. Racial profiling

Rosa Parks once said, “Each person must live their life as a model for others.” (BrainyQuote) In the world, mothers, fathers, grandparents, sisters, and brothers, are all models for each other. Children look up to their parents and follow in their footsteps. After birth, we grow up around one main race, and that race becomes ”normal” as we get older. America is being colored with a variety of colors of races as time goes on. In the time when Martin Luther King Jr. was fighting for the rights of the black citizen, whites were portrayed superior to any other race, especially blacks. As the face of America is changing, this superiority of whites isn't so strong as it was before and races are being able to be looked at as a whole and not different social classes as they were in the past. As the years are changing and the race demographics is changing, we find ourselves more accepting each other, we realize the change is rapid, and we wonder why.

Everyone has been there before. You 're walking in public, whether it be in a school setting, a workplace, or elsewhere, and you feel an overwhelming feeling of being watched and judged. Whether it is your dabblings in romance, performance in sports events, clothing, or otherwise, we feel the need to compare ourselves to and identify with the societal “norms” around us. It is better to thrive as a sheep than to starve as a wolf, as the saying goes. This is what is known as conformity and it has been with us from time immemorial.

People are still going to what they think they know instead of branching out to all the possibilities in the people around them. The outer shells of other people are the warning signs to other people opposite of the social spectrum of society to not even try to have any connection with them, yet folks

Growing up in a small town can lead to one having a very narrow-minded attitude. In a place where almost everyone is the same skin-color, has the same socioeconomic status, and follows the same way of thinking, anyone who fails to conform to the standard can be viewed as an outcast, subject to judgment from those who are looking in. I was someone who fell into this trap. I looked down upon people who were different from me, people who had vastly different ideas, dressed differently, or never tried to perform well in school. I failed to understand or welcome the distinctions between people, and never tried to get to know those who were so different from me.

There was a time back in grade school when I was people had the unjust judgment of who I am as a person because I was a little different from everyone else. I have always been bigger in size than most people and that hasn’t changed today. I would wear different attire than other people because of the area I grew up in and the size of me. I would also be into hip hop music because of who I grew up with; however, I was the only one that only listened to hip hop because everyone was raised to not listen to the language they spoke in those songs. When I was a kid and didn’t dress or look like everyone else it would be difficult for me to be included in some groups either out of fear by some of the smaller

Subsequently, I myself am of course judged by superficial people in this society. From elementary to the present, people have categorized me as the quiet girl. Even teachers think I’m quiet. In actuality, I am only observing what surrounds me, and thinking about my current predicaments. When I was 6 and a half my mother lost custody of me, I was put into foster care for a year. I left Euclid. My hometown where all my friends lived, all my family, I left everything behind, I moved to

I have a group of friends that don't judge people for who they are. we listen to each others problems. I like hanging out with my friends that judge other people that makes me happy.and for those people that judge other people that are missing out because those people that they are judging are acutely really cool because those people are my friends and they are really cool.

Otherness stresses how society creates a sense of belonging and identity by constructing categories as binary opposites. This is obvious in the social construction in Western societies featuring gender and how socialisation shapes what it means to be a man or women.

In high school, we had two or three African Americans and about five Hispanics. We acted like it was no big deal because we had grown up with them and never even thought of them as being any different than any of us. However, when we got a new kid that was African American, everyone acted like they were from a completely different planet. People suddenly became worried that he was going to rob them. They acted like this because they had never been around people of another race and have always been taught that they are different.

Most people in this world today have been judged or criticized for something. This has been shown through some of my experiences I have had in the past. For example, one day when I was at school, I witnessed two of my friends who were talking about another one of my friends, but it wasn’t good words being said. My friends said that he was wearing gross clothes as well as that, he wasn’t the smartest kid. This evidence suggests that my friend with bad clothes couldn’t control that and he was being judged by the way he looked but he was a really nice kid. His family, maybe couldn’t afford that, but the kids that were judging him didn’t realize the advantages they had compared to him.

I believe that most people try to find the bad in each other and thats all they see. This is where I believe stereotyping comes from. One race may be scared of another race because of the stereotypes they've heard about them. Ex. White people to Arabs and Muslims. However, another race may not feel the same way, because