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What It Means To Be An Outsider Essay

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What does it mean to be an “outsider?” There may be many different definitions on the Internet, or in the dictionary, but my definition of what it means to be an “outsider,” is to be excluded. It may be simple, but it is true, and it is very meaningful to those who have been outsiders at one point in their lives. I know because I was one of these people. I am not an outsider in my every day to day life in school and other aspects of life, but there have been certain places and times when I have felt like I don’t belong and one of these times was last year, when my family went to Tucson, Arizona, and Nogales, Mexico, for spring break. Now most people would say of course you would feel weird in a different place than home, but the people in Nogales have such a different lifestyle, such a different world, with a different language, which I barely know and a dangerous home where gunfights happen right down the street. They didn’t look at us as if we were tourists. They looked at us like we were snobby, rich, city folk. This is not what I usually feel like because when we go on vacation to other cities up north, I look …show more content…

To feel like an insider, is to feel embraced, and wanted which is one of the warmest feelings you can ever feel because it makes you feel special like you belong. One time when I felt like an insider especially, was in Boy Scouts, when after I was chosen for the National Honor Society in the Boy Scouts, called the Order of the Arrow, I was chosen as the Chair of Ceremonies in the Order of the Arrow, which is where we do Native American ceremonies that are symbolic and meaningful to the Society which is based on the Native Americans. I felt special and wanted, but not everyone can always feel that way which is why we need to try to make people feel wanted and feel like they belong no matter

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