Why Do People Want To Fit In Society

Assimilation has a major impact on America and its history. Assimilation is a very controversial topic as many people have different opinions and beliefs about it. The reason people have so many different opinions and beliefs is because assimilation impacts America in so many different ways and happens for so many different reasons. I personally believe assimilation is both good and bad depending on what aspect you 're looking at and how the assimilation is happening.

I am very proud of my Hispanic heritage. Even though, I am an United States citizen, I am always going to belong to my Hispanic backgrounds. There are so many reasons that I am proud to be Guatemalan and American that I could write a whole book about it. However, I regularly participate in my Hispanic culture and community through my family, traditions, and by being bilingual. One way I fit into my Hispanic community is by my family. They are from Guatemala. That means that I am Guatemalan, even though I was not born where my parents were born. Another way I interact with my Hispanic community is being

What does it mean to be accepted? Acceptance plays a big role in our everyday lives. It gives us motivation and helps increase our self-esteem. It’s also provides a sense of belonging and a no judgement zone if mistakes are made which decreases the anxiety one might have. Everyone has a purpose in life and fitting in somewhere helps you identify what that purpose is.

Think about where you live. On your street are the people around you all similar, or are there some people who have different race, political views, gender, religious practices, education, and age? We tend to want to group ourselves with people like us. You might not even notice that you’re doing it either. Most of the time it just comes naturally. When you meet someone new you start talking, and you might find something in common with them. When you find things that you have in common with someone you’re starting some type of connection based just off similarities between you, and someone else. It’s easy to be yourself where you are comfortable, and with people you are comfortable with. I agree with David Brooks that we group ourselves with people we are comfortable with because it helps us feel a sense of stability.

Foreigners make up one quarter of the U.S. population (U.S. Immigration Statistics). In other words, 81,281,909 people are left struggling to find a community in which they belong. As a result, cliques are created based off similar beliefs and languages. However, there are measures a person can take in order to become accepted into a particular group that they might otherwise not belong in. Manipulating language is one resource that can be used to blend into a desired community.

In today’s society the general attitude towards an individual is conform or be an outcast. It is seen in schools where people who do not fit into specific cliques become outcasts, the weird people. It is seen in the work place as well. People have conformed to standards set by society simply because society has said to do so. Society asks people to change themselves to fit in. However, people do not have to conform to the standards set by society.

My tummy grumbled that lunch was still minutes away. I tried my best to pay attention to my friend as he read aloud the list of ideas for the next Black Student Union meeting.

Everyone goes through one point of life not being able to fit in a group. Some people believe that being an outsider isn’t universal, however, if everyone fits in why is would bullying be a big problem in schools. People also believe that everyone has groups to fit in, but not everyone fits in social classes. From my experience, I know what it’s like to not fully fit in with the popular kids. They don’t really talk to you and they believe that they are more superior, which is not the case at all. They believe that they have the right to judge you, but makes them look bad in the long run.

Greg Graffin’s Anarchy in the Tenth Grade represents the in-group theory presented by Gordon Allport. The in-group theory proposes that people belong to cliques, some by choice and others by chance, and society affects or has influences on these in-groups through equal out-groups. Mr. Graffin explains how it feels to be a new kid in a new school and how he became a punker. Mr. Graffin explains his endeavours through the in-group “punk” and also expounds on how different out-groups react to his in-group.

All of a sudden, I found myself thinking sociologically when I was watching the movie “Mean Girls,” because it reminded me of the cliques and peer groups that were in my old high school. The movie is about a teenage girl who ends up becoming a part of this clique full of mean girls and after an incident she sets out to try and ruin the leader of the clique’s life. It was the cliques and peer groups that made me start thinking sociologically, because it made me look back and see how much I have changed since I came to the University of Kentucky, and left my old clique or peer group behind.

The author in the article, Individuality VS. Conformity: The Healthy Middle? discuses, on how most of high school students try to fit in but also try to be different at the same time.The author supports her discussion by Illustrating different types of examples that make us different but that also make it difficult to fit in, like: “What about the kid who confesses to his best friend that he’s gay, and then looks up to meet a horrified expression?” and “Or the girl at the largely Hispanic populated school, who’s taunted every day because of her skin?”The author 's purpose is to convince high school students and also society as whole to try to find a healthy middle in order to do that you need

We all need to belong somewhere. Everyone needs people to be there for them. We need to adore our lives with others, rather it is our family, friends, coworkers, or just society alone. There are a lot of traits that makes everyone unique in their own way with some of these traits people can make you seem like you’re an outsider but it’s false. Believe it or not we all fit in our own categories, but we come together as one in the end. No one should ever feel like they are isolated. Feeling like you belong improves your motivation, health, and mind to discover new people and things.

“Attention, everyone! We have one more person that will be joining this group today," announced a raven-haired woman in her late twenties. At the command of the demanding but soft voice, twenty-four heads turned to face me. Immediately heat crawled up my neck to my face, and half-moon indentions decorated the palms of my hands. The cold room became dead silent as curiosity shone through the eyes of the seated potential friends or enemies. The obsidian-haired woman then turned to me and said, “Please introduce yourself to the class and share something interesting about yourself.”

Have you ever felt different? Growing up, I always felt out of place. I felt like there was something wrong with me. I thought of myself as an outsider. I would look at everyone around me and try to figure out what they have that I don’t. As I got older, I realized that everyone is different and unique in their own way. Everyone has a different story.

Assimilation can be described as the process whereby outsiders, immigrants, or subordinate groups become indistinguishable within the dominant host society, eventually conforming to the existing cultural norms of society.