Argumentative Essay On Being An Outsider

Has there been a point in your life where you have felt as though you were being left out? Surely you have. Looking back on my first day at a new school. The dreaded first day of school. I was starting sixth grade, for the second time since I hadn’t covered enough in homeschooling. I remember showing up to the orientation and only knowing one person, from softball I’d done the year before. But, that one familiar person was talking to other people and that scared me. So I stood at the edge of class until that one person noticed me and I made friends with her again and made friends with all of her friends. Have you been in a similar situation? Maybe not. Some people are born as a ‘social butterfly’ there’s nothing wrong with that. That still doesn’t exclude them from being an outsider. Just because they don’t have a hard time getting along and socializing with others doesn’t mean that they won’t be stood up for their date at the movies because their date cancelled without telling them. They would feel like an outsider in that situation. In that time and place. Everyone at some time in their life is bound to be an outsider

Humans all have some urge to belong. Everyone has a familiar urge to be accepted

To be an outsider isn’t a permanent term and everyone goes through it. The popular kids feel like outsiders too sometimes. In ‘Revenge of the Geeks’, the author, Alexandra Robbins says that the popular people tend to develop bad habits that will harm their future. She even mentions “Psychologists point out that high-status cliques in high school teach the exclusionary behavior that may be the foundation for eventual racism, anti-Semitism, sexism, and other forms of bigotry” So that would make them switch roles with the former outsiders, whereas the Outsiders would now be the successful populars. Then the populars would become the less successful