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Out of My Element By society's standards, college students are stereotyped as party animals. However, I have always thought of myself as a very introverted person. Others may say that I am anti-social or stay to myself a lot. I do not like being around crowds of people and I can not stand being in the limelight. In the two years that I have been in college, I have not visited any of my friends from high school that went to other colleges. I am not the party type and would rather stay curled up on the couch watching a good movie at home. This year I told myself that I would try to exercise the act of resocialization and live a little bit by going to my friend’s homecomings at their schools. Resocialization as defined in our text, Sociology, …show more content…

All of my close friends know that I like quiet, calm, and less crowded places, but as soon as I got there, a huge fight was broke out and the entire neighborhood was involved. Everyone around me rushed to the fight, but I got back in my car and locked the doors. I felt out of place and unsafe from the second I got to Georgia Southern to the second I left to go back home. After I thought about it, I knew that I had just experienced the concept known as being in an out-group, “a group or category to which people feel they do not belong (Schaefer, …show more content…

In preparation of the party, all of my friends were using language that I was not familiar with or not used to hearing on a daily basis. They asked me was I ready to go to the pre-game. I have heard of having drinks before an event, but I did not know that there was an actual name for it. I noticed that I did not fit into society’s standard of me at a very young age. If you are young and pretty, you are expected to wear makeup and dress up if you plan on going out in today’s society. I did not catch it at first, but while one of my friends was doing my makeup, she said, “You look like you would know how to do your own makeup.” Not only am I already stereotyped by society for being a young, black college girl, but my own friend felt as though just because I was pretty; I was automatically supposed to be an expert at applying makeup. We ended up having an okay time at the party, but I now know for a fact that the “party scene” is not for me no matter what society

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