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| "Family Group in a Landscape" by Frans Hals, c.1620 |
Most people belong to several in-groups and "switching the in-group affiliation we're adopting for the moment is a trick we all use" (165).
What in-groups have been important to shaping your worldview? Have you ever experienced the challenge of switching from one in-group to another? Have you ever found yourself on the outside of an in-group you once belonged to?
Many things have helped shape how I see the world like my family and who I hang out with, but I've also been changed by experiences I've had. Groups like theater and drama, have put me in a “outgoing” and “weird” group, where I'm expected to be that 'strange' girl that's not afraid to stand up in class and voice her own opinion. It's almost like an excuse for my weirdness :). In high school there would be one random day every week where I would dress up for no reason. One of my teachers asked me why one day, and another student replied "I think it's a drama thing." It actually made my day.
ReplyDeleteRight now I’m going through a huge change: high school student to college. A lot of my friends who are just a year behind me still unconsciously treat me differently because I’m supposed to be an “adult” now. It's so strange because I'm looking back at a group I've been a part of for 4 years and realizing that that's not my group anymore. Yet when I look to where I"m going, I don't even know what groups there are. Everyone keeps telling me that college is where you really get to find out who you are, so I guess I'll just have to wait to find out how much it changes me.
The group that has been the most important in shaping my worldview would be my family. My family has always been really close, so they've obviously been a huge factor in the way I think and behave.
ReplyDeleteThe transition from high school to college is definitely a big change. I went to a small school all the way from 1st grade through 12th, and was a part of a group of friends who stuck to together for more than a decade. No one I graduated with came to East Central though, so it was definitely a new experience trying to make new friends in a new place when I'd never really had to do that before. This also applies to the third question, as I've seen myself grow apart from many of those friends that stayed home.
Matthew Parham
As someone who has spent very much time in the out-group, family was my only constant in-group. Only during high school and college did accessible groups begin to form; being a part of the outgroup is also important, although it can be looked upon as a misfortune or mistake.
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