Stereotypes, social groups & discrimination.

hey everyone i'd just like to say thanks for all the replies - they were really helpful.

sometimes i get called a teeni just coz i call others teenies. at least i know what it means, unlike them. teenies are weird though, they get offended if you call them one, yet they're all into following the latest fashions,which is what a teenie is. and when i tell them to go look it up in the dictionary, they never do, and they call me "miss dictionary" or something

In my class, you might like odd people, but not necessarily the whole group. my group as a whole is classes as "the grunger and goth group" or "Keanie and Hannah and that lot" But in my school we just tend to ignore those who insult us. Unless they insult us bad. Because we fight back.

I label people...so what it's my opinon one what "group" they're in.

haha labels ....ahhh ok so i personally dont use them....why? hmmmm well because i like learning ppl's names and i dont like being ignorant.... i like getting to know somebody before i decide whether i dislike them or not....but idk...thats just me....yeah well its stupid cuz a lot of ppl who get all pissed off cuz someone will look at them funny will go around and look at other ppl the same way because the beleive they are the "enemy" to the "group" they belong to....

Well, I guess I label people, but I dont care about what group theyre in. My friends that I spend most time at school with are a nerd and a normal girl... a bit slutty.. (sorry, but its true!). And they call me a punk. Pfft. But I think were the only ones who doesnt care about that in my school.

at my school everyone has their own group. basically they'relabeled, and people label others. labels are another way to seperate everybody, even though i admit i do sometimes.

hi hi all my peoples in the world of idiots

hm. there's a new one for me a "goth ho" i was just called one. heh. stupid people.

labels have basically created themselves in the school and everything, but yeah... i hate them personnaly, like when idiots call me a satan warshipper cause' i wear all black. it really pisses me off because they dont even know me!

My cousin is goth is I dont really care bout labels. Its so funny going tto the shops with her tho. All these little kids n girls in their early teens stare at her. and when she looks at them, they look away real quick. But in my school there are only two groups. The 'popular group' n the rest of us. I reckon the popular ppl dont hav as much fun as us others tho.

In my school the "popular" people aren't actually that popular... no one really likes them... but no one says anything because there's more of them than there is in other groups lol

We didn't really have groups at our old school, except from the 'good looking' and 'bad looking.' Which group you are determines your popularity.
I was in the 'bad looking' group along with my friend. All the 'good looking' people would all hang out together and have loads of friends and all be invited to everyone's parties, where as the B-L group would be unpopular and not be invited to anyone's parties and couldn't hang out with the cool kids.
Also the G-L kids would only go out with good looking people only and not for the personality EG: THIS ACTUALLY HAPPENED. IT WAS VERY HURTFUL.
Girl 1: Jack (the new boy at the time) said he thinks Becky's good looking! *giggles*
Boy 1 & 2: Eurgh!
Boy 1: Like if Molly was here he'd be like "defintley!"
Boy 2: I mean, no offence but...
Me: Oh. That's alright. *walks away sadly*

i really like my school and really where i live cuz most ppl are openminded and dont care what that person looks like or listens to....that stuff really doesnt matter...they actually really care about the person you are... i mean there are groups of freinds but its not like those groups of freinds are forbidden to talk to someone else.....there are some people who are close minded and just "cant" hang out with someone who is not like them but i dont really see many of those...

My school is pretty sad when it comes to stereotypes. No idea why but for some reason there are very few people up here in northern Scotland who look very different. I'm the only girl in my school of 600 who has dyed her hair a colour other than blonde. it's bright red with purple and pink streaks and basically I scare the hell out of people by accident. they all assume i must be some raging teen goth freak who wants to stab everybody. sadly not. but highly amusing when everybody clears the corridor for me to get past

I think kids want to find a group that they fit in with just to feel like they're a part of something, kinda like religion I think. Then when they get into a certain group they feel like they're obligated to act a certain way due to the stereotype of the group. Like all the 'preps' won't talk to the 'nerds.' then all the nerds feel obligated to be weenies, cause that's how they're stereotyped as. I still get completeley shit on by all the people who are labeled as 'preps' just because I write GEEK across my knuckles and wear a T-shirt that says 'Death to The Click Five' I like talking to the kids who don't watch a lot of TV, don't know what the hell Hollister is, and aren't swayed anyway or another by anyones outside appearance, I'm like that, but according to a few 'preps' I'm a nerd.

There were loads of labels for different people at my old school but generally it was the popular and the unpopular.
From what I gathered you had to be loud, rich, stuck up and opinionated to be popular and they were the ones that thought they were pretty and it used to annoy me that everyone would suck up to the popular girls just to be their friend so that it made them look better.

I was called a punk and a goth and various other things that I don't like to remember.I don't like to label myself though. I'm just me.

my year group at school is basically divided into two. you have the 'popular' people who take over the common room and get to choose the radio station and then the other half who would prefer to listen to rock rather than dance. but its almost like the two groups can't mix and everyone just slags each other off behind their backs. i hate having the whole social groups thing because it just divides people.