Who Are You?

[TinyFroggy]

I often sees in the tvs, for ex. Mean Girls (Linday Lohan is soo.. smexii :P) and HSM (like the songs in HSM 1), that teens were categorized. Either you are plastic or *******, skaters or screamers, nerd or pervert (just to rhyme) Lol. The category I know only few:

1) Plastic
2) Jocks
3) Top
4) Sk8ers
5) Outcast
6) Nerd

But, they were much more. So, just confused. Do we need this or just to pick a side for our protection and life mates. Do we need to class peoples? At the end, when we become a grown up, its not sure if we still going to be the same. So, why dont we just equalised everything?

Tbh, Im not in any category but always hoping to be in one. Maybe because of my teen anxiousity feeling. Always want to try attitude.. Still, I dont know why or what I am talking about. Maybe you can continue? Anything to say?

[buttons]

I would honestly say I do not fit into any of these categories and I'm glad I don't. I have friends that would be labelled "plastic" and ones that would be labelled "stoners/chavs" so kind of varies :) There is no need to class people but you're always going to be judged and labelled on what you do.

[Caution]

neither, me. i don't fit into a category.

[TinyFroggy]

Yh..no doubt.. but when we are in a category, we dont know.. maybe it would give us better way of life with all those back up we have and mate that we know will support us. Its a bigger family then not categorized..

[Access]

7) The Best

[PaintYourTarget]

When you hit the older years, like Year 11+, these stereotypes don't tend to matter anymore. I could be stood there in skinny jeans with my fringe next to a guy in trackies and still get on really well.

[eight]

Cuzzy Im Chipmunk

[buttons]

Yh..no doubt.. but when we are in a category, we dont know.. maybe it would give us better way of life with all those back up we have and mate that we know will support us. Its a bigger family then not categorized..
Being in one 'category' won't give you back up and support, for example the 'plastics' are stereotypically the ****** ones that don't really give a **** about their friends feelings so not much support there, whereas if you have lots of different types of friends you can choose the day you're going to have, whether it's being with the 'party people' you can have fun with or different people :S That's why it's better not being categorized if you can have best of everything.

7) The Best
maybe fit into 3) top? :P

[Chaos]

When you hit the older years, like Year 11+, these stereotypes don't tend to matter anymore. I could be stood there in skinny jeans with my fringe next to a guy in trackies and still get on really well.


Never happened in my school if some emo stood next to a chav in year 11 they would get k0'd

[TinyFroggy]

Hurm.. thats kewl but not every1 can do that. You r special ;P

[TinyFroggy]

Lol. Nice one chaos ;)


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[Access]

maybe fit into 3) top? :P

nah the top people are underneath me ;)

[PaintYourTarget]

By year11 we were all mates in our year, apart from a few really annoying kids everyone could pretty much hold a conversation about something with everyone. It's still like that now in year 13.

[buttons]

When you hit the older years, like Year 11+, these stereotypes don't tend to matter anymore. I could be stood there in skinny jeans with my fringe next to a guy in trackies and still get on really well.
What about when you were 7 or so? Didn't everyone get on? That's how I remember, everyone used to hang around with each other no matter your interests or how you looked because we didn't judge then until we were into teens.

Never happened in my school if some emo stood next to a chav in year 11 they would get k0'd
Same hah I think the older it is during school the more likely you are to form cliques.

[TinyFroggy]

On my opinion, when you r like kids, 6-10 u dont care a bit of what u r. The only thing u care is about fun. But when you reach puberty, thats how you feel needing of someone. If you are not coupled yet or so on, you will join a group to shuhh your boredom n have a teen lifestyle no matter in wht group u r. The only thing is, r u in the rite group?

[PaintYourTarget]

What about when you were 7 or so? Didn't everyone get on? That's how I remember, everyone used to hang around with each other no matter your interests or how you looked because we didn't judge then until we were into teens.

Same hah I think the older it is during school the more likely you are to form cliques.
I think in year 7 you're too scared and haven't found yourself yet, you're all getting to know each other so you don't really care about peoples interests. Year 8 and you're getting lumped into the categories and in year 9 they stick 'cause people are more concerned about looking cool and all that. Then by year 10 & 11 you've all been together for years and you know people based by what they're like as a person, not by their clothes and such.

[Chaos]

Same hah I think the older it is during school the more likely you are to form cliques.

Yeh. It got way worse in year 11.

[drama]

year 7 everyone is the same and like no-one really minds cos there are no groups

year 8,9 and the beginning of 10 theres huge seperation and year 11 everyone says they're the same but theres always a social hierachy and that won't change

[TinyFroggy]

hurm. its not my country there. But, from my experience (in Malaysia). The school students, only in a group when they like 13+ except for few over group loyal member. Especially if gangster (which may start when they are 7/8). We rarely got those plastics n so on unless in secondary school (13+ yo). Then the top shows, the footballers are cliquer n much more. But, we does not apply this in our country well. Thats y I aroused this issue, becos in movies, they showed loads of ex of this category/groups.. If u know what I mean..

[Boxiel]

I haven't believed in prep groups for years, I don't think I ever saw the movie either!

[TinyFroggy]

what is preps group? hurmm.

[Crimson]

idk... Like... Sometimes I might look really emoey, with skinny jeans and what-not but then other times I wear trackies :S I'm abit of everything I guess. But when it comes to school, people probably class me as kinda preppy.

[Mikey]

Top maybe? haha

[RandomManJay]

I don't really fit into any of them. You could say I'm sort of a combination of the bottom 3, but I don't usually get defined by a sub-culture, I'm usually just weird and eccentric (unhinged basically :D)

[RedStratocas]

anxiousity

congratulations, you won the made up word of the year award.

i'm the coolest kid ever, thats who i am.


what is preps group? hurmm.

http://unforseeable.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/2003_nov_preppy.jpg

[Absently]

Oh, everyone here labels eachother. I know straight away I'm labelled into the category 'weird'. I don't know why I'm weird, but everyone just seems to think so. But everyone here gets along, no matter what category you're in, everyone just generally hangs out with eachother.

[Marucho]

I hate stereotypes. One minutes im being called Emo then im apparently plastic. Grow up. :@ Usually the nedish people are the ones that everyones like "eww hes proper mingin" lolol. The plastics are "Omg shes so skinny and pretty". Emos well, there pretty much are none and everyone else is "Freak, Nerd" etc. its so stupid.

[Glitter]

im a little it of everything ;)

[Zak]

people would probs label me as a chav geek init

[Caution]

congratulations, you won the made up word of the year award.

i'm the coolest kid ever, thats who i am.



http://unforseeable.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/2003_nov_preppy.jpg
LOL i've never seen anyone dress like that.

[VelvetClover]

When I was a teenager (which wasn't that long ago!) I went through "stages" I guess. I was sort of grungy through most of it. Now I wear mainly dresses with belts and lots of jewellry and big hair lol I have no idea what to catergorise myself as now really.

The secondary school I went to was quite insular - there were only about 300 kids in it and most of them lived in the same area so everybody knew each other/knew each others families and stuff, there wasn't really much pressure on what you wore. A long as you washed and had clean clothes everyone was pretty accepting of you whatever you wore really lol which was nice. I used to wear some pretty wacky stuff looking back - probably to shock and stand out. I'm not so much of an extrovert now.

It's a shame there's so much pressure on teens to fit into some sort of catergory or group, but I guess that's just the way things are.

[CJW93]

I am a mixture of most of those groups.

i wear tracksuit bottoms with football shirts and trainers, but the next day I will be seen in skinny jeans and those tops from topman with the shortish sleeves (looks like baseball shirts) and pimsoles. I also listen to near enough every genre of music, apart from classical

[buttons]

LOL i've never seen anyone dress like that.
I think it tends to be an American thing:P

[Caution]

suppose, but I lol'd.

[camera]

class clown tbh. people are sometimes intimidated by me i think coz im sarcastic :S
but if i had to choose any, till probs be abit of everything

[The Professor]

When you hit the older years, like Year 11+, these stereotypes don't tend to matter anymore. I could be stood there in skinny jeans with my fringe next to a guy in trackies and still get on really well.

Yeah I've certainly noticed the difference in attitude between secondary school and 6th form. All the chavs and emos and everything tend to get on far better now.

They're still chavs and emos though, whatever anyone says. You don't end up wearing exactly the same black eyeliner or burberry as everyone else be pure coincidence. People purposely copy each other to keep up with what they think is fashionable and that puts them in a group. Its not necessarily a bad thing, just a fact of life.

[FlyingJesus]

Do we need to class peoples?

Yes. Humans are not naturally metropolitan multicultural creatures, but we're not solitary either. We're tribal, which is why we put ourselves in groups and identify each other through our fashions and mannerisms. Subcultures exist because we as a race have become too large and have outgrown what we're comfortable with being a part of

[RedStratocas]

I haven't believed in prep groups for years, I don't think I ever saw the movie either!

prep is more of an american thing. and that's not really the most accurate picture that i posted, nowadays what is considered "preppy" is 90$ ripped jeans, constant sandles, dyed blonde streak hair (even for guys) and only shirts that have "hollister" "abercrombie & fitch" or "american eagle" in huge letters.

[FlyingJesus]

Over the last three days I have worn (in order) Hollister, Abercrombie&Fitch and American Eagle shirts lmao STRUT and my Levis aren't that ripped

[Japan]

In my school you're either a plastic, nerd, perv or me.

[Arch]

Don't rly think im anything, and im friends with everyone.
Although i do skateboard, wear baggy clothes and smoke alot of weed
so w/e group that is.
But theres over 2000 kids at my school so im sure there are groups just not part of any :)

[TinyFroggy]

Lol. Nice school BritishTea :P

[TinyFroggy]

Arch. You r sorted to like major others; Everything/Anything group? Think we shud make those category:P




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[Catchy]

I dunno... but every1 loves me.

[TinyFroggy]

Lol. Kk...


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[Wahey]

Used to be a right ned (chav) few years ago but now i'm probs just a casual :P

[TinyFroggy]

nice wahey ;)


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[Sxejess]

I don't think I fit into any of these catergories, and 2bh I think everyone should just be the same, even though we like different things it doesn't mean we have to be labelled. But label is life :p

[TinyFroggy]

Yh. Thats how peoples habbit. Labelled every1, categorized every1 as they pleased. Thats how we got those acrotism (if im not mistaken) n so on...

[Soy]

2) Jock

[Jam]

1) Plastic
2) Jocks
3) Top
4) Sk8ers
5) Outcast
6) Nerd

1) I'm not female, nor do I literally paint my face orange, or dye my hair a repulsive colour.
2) I'm too fat for sports plus I'm short sited.
3) No idea what that is.
4) Ditto from 2 and I don't like jeans.
5) Maybe.
6) Most likely.

I'm guessing 6 is the stay in the house and never leave cept' for school sort.

[TinyFroggy]

Lol. Seems like you are not socializing person then. But non-socialize peeps have 2 diversion if im not mistaken. The one outcast only by his own or group of them. I bet you are the one alone.. :P

[Rozi]

Well, my school is really mini. Like 800 people including 6th form. In my year there are 68 people so every one kinda knows everyone and most people can hold up a conversation. We have groups but there aren't like cliques. Everyone is just who they are now we're in year 10. But in years 8 and 9 it was alot more like label focused, mainly sloney and wannabe emos. Then there were the half popular but wannabe **** group and then the wierdos. Personally, I find, as I have a small group of about 5 of us, there was and is alot less pressure to fit into a group, and as a result I've just kinda stayed the same. I'm the kind of person to try and fit into the crowd, not try and stand out by dressing differently. So I would say I was none of those, just myself.

[GrandTheftAudio]

Copying what Jameseh did seems easier :P.

1) Plastic - I'm not orange, bleach blonde or wear short skirts.
2) Jocks - I'm not overly 'popular' or stuck up.
3) Top - A what?
4) Sk8ers - I can't skate. I wear clothes that fit.
5) Outcast - I enjoy meeting new people and making friends.
6) Nerd - I'm stupid and hate anything that involves working hard.

I'm nothing, I'm just me. :D