One community I belong to that has always been somewhat of a defining group for me growing up has been the ideologies established by living in a town like Rye. Growing up in Rye and living here my whole life, I was raised in a sort of small bubbled society where the dominant focus for young children was the importance of being superlative- the smartest kids; the most known; the most athletic; the most cultured; the funniest- have always maintained glorification while those less-so remain unidentified. In a way, this ideology that being the best is synonymous to being approved of was deprecating to those who strived but failed to find something that gave them appraisal. To people entering Rye and watching this societal mindset, it seems as though