Being a student at a fairly large high school, I see my fair share of cliques, and exclusive social groups. I see the many general characteristics of the groups, and how they act, dress, and treat other people. I will also say that I am not judging people by stereotypes, or individually. There is no doubt that there are groups of people with common ideas that band together and show similar behaviors to each other. Many people will look away from the groups, casting it off as something childish, or irrelevant to their lives. Most people don't look to the people who are affected by these groups. I can personally say that I'm in an exclusive group of students. Being in honors classes, I have known the same group of students for my past 2 1/2 school years. Comments are made about the "lower" classes, who are actually students in above average classes. Again, not everyone makes these comments or has this mentality, but this is a group, or clique, within our school. Cheerleaders are also a big group in which people will talk about. Not all cheerleaders are promiscuous, but some are at our school, as are other students. People get too wrapped up in what someone said about them, or which people are dating others, or who got the highest grade on that test. There are hundreds of others who are cast aside and are made fun of because they don't fit the requirements of the social group. Countless times I've heard people ridicule a person because they are friends with someone not even in an honors class. Society and people in general have the power to overcome the majority, and start doing things out of the ordinary. Be a cheerleader in the chess club, or befriend someone nice even if they have green hair. It's a time to be different and make a change.
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