The cliques in my high school and college

There was a lot of cliques in  my high school when I first go there but they started to dwindle down when I was in the later year of high school.  The same effect happened in the college. When I first got to high school, you had the obvious stereotypes but then it is starting to dwindle down when I got later and later in high school.  By about the time I was done in high school, everyone seems to be the same and you didn't have that much distinction between one teenager or another.

I notice that the stores even clique, even at little kids.  You can choose to have little jocks, little emo kids, little rednecks; the parents seem to get you started.  I think it might be a parenting thing too.  Your mom or  dad have a vision of what your kid should be like and they start shoving clothes at you or music, etc.  They probably want a same thing of as they were in high school if they have high self esteem.  Kids should choose their own clique; not the parents.  The cliques start on the playground and they get worse, but I don't think I see as many obvious stereotypes as they used to be.

The cliques are probably started because of the many genres of music and TV channels we have, along with the internet.  You have B.E.T for the gangsta type, you have a channel for the preps like  Jersey Shore, and ESPN for the jocks.  You have the Chiller channel for the goth/emo kids, CMT for the rednecks,  or the Lifetime channel, and Comedy Central for your normal slacker kid.

The music channels does that same thing.  If you are a gangsta, you listen to the hip-hop station non stop, if you are a redneck you listen to the country station, and if you are some emo/skater kid, you listen to mainly rock like Warped Tour stuff.

Back then, there was not that much media and everyone is about the same.  It seems like you listen to whatever was shoved at you and it was mostly pop radio and the two TV channels. Country if you are a redneck farm boy but even the farm people had to listen to pop radio when they were in high school - many of them were not that happy with being farm kids.  I think it is the rise of the internet and TV is causing more cliques - it looks like you had not that much choice to define your stereotype.  Now you have more exposure to everything, which creates more cliques, especially with the alternative and indie scene.  It looks like the hipster craze is start to pick up because of the internet and we seem to be very multicultural such as being access to R&B and hip-hop outside of the black community.

But even with this multiculturalism, I don't see many wannabes as we used to have.  Most of the time when I am in college, I see black people are the only ones that listen to R&B and hip-hop.  Anyone can listen to any style of music - why  you have to stereotype R&B as black people music and country as white trash music. The stereotypes are lame but it looks like it's the way things go.

I did listen to R&B and hip-hop in high school and I have nothing against cranking a R. Kelly song every once in a while.  You should have a more open mind about things and not be so closed minded, but you should not be a wannabe.  It looks like I was bored with the dominate redneck culture that I had during my hometown, but once I got into college and actually seen more black people and people of different cultures, I am starting to find out that where I was living is that not bad.  I think I should start having a more open mind of what I am and stop being a wannabe or I should just learn to accept everything which is the best thing you should be.  You should be friends with everyone because we are about the same - who cares if you are black, white, rich, poor; there is nothing better than being a friend.  In the real world, you have to be friendly to other people especially if you are being in business like McDonalds.

I am still debating if people should stick to who they are or just to be a bunch of open minded, wannabes.  If you tend to be liberal, you are pretty much still a teenager in a sense of finding out who you are.  If you know who you are, you are going to become conservative.

I was more liberal in high school and open minded, but I was starting to become more and more conservative when I started to become more focused.  I think ADHD people tend to be more liberal because they can't stick to anything.  I start becoming more conservative when there is more treatment.