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November 27, 2005
Chapter 2 Practices of Looking
It is interesting how people can create subcultures from cultures that have already been defined by society. This shows how creativity is continuous and continues to produce new standards of social images. At the high school that I attended in San Diego, California, had many social "cliques", which are commonly shown in movies that involve high schools. There were cliques consisting of goths, punks, popular cheerleaders, jocks, homosexuals, and not so popular people.
I never really tried to fit into any social clique that was at my school, and I just decided to be myself. I got along with people from all different cliques and didn't feel like I was isolated from anyone. I think that by some people trying to fit into a clique to be unique from a standard image, or to be rebellious usually ends up placing them into another standard determined by the clique that they become a part of.
In different ways everyone is a part of a certain image, whether they want to be or not. However, there is always room to be unique.
--Yasmin
Posted by lcisperez at November 27, 2005 08:29 PM