Throughout an individual's life, they are taught the expectations of society. If they differ from those accepted ideals, they are seen as weird and different. As children, humans are affected by their surroundings, and they try to adapt to adult ideas of social groups. Each person wants to belong. Yet, people feel lonely and secluded. Ever since humans have met and interacted with each other, the experience of being an outsider is universal to those different from others, as evidenced by Pearson Realize Unit Two. Firstly, people are secluded by society and even their own families based on physical appearances. For example, in the story “The Orphan Boy and the Elk Dog”, a Blackfeet (Native American tribe) myth, Long Arrow was an orphan boy who was deaf, and therefore, scorned. His relatives did not care about him, so he was forced to fend for himself. “Now, he was like a beaten, mangy dog, the kind who hungrily roams outside a camp, circling it from afar, smelling the good meat boiling in the kettles but never coming close for fear of being kicked” (Blackfeet 45). Long …show more content…
Meeting others has always caused distinct reactions. For instance, in “Encountering the Other: Challenge for the 21st Century”, the author, Ryszard Kapuscinski, explains most people see others from a “white man’s perspective”. In fact, on a trip to Africa, Kapuscinski was called a foreigner. He realized “Others are indeed Others, but for those Others, I am the one who is Other” (Kapuscinski 236). Therefore, every single culture has other cultures different from themselves. Every individual in the world could be seen as an outsider to someone from a different country or culture. People do not realize until they go out of their own culture that many people would perceive their culture as odd. A difference in cultures can cause people to be seen as an