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Originally posted by djflish
Is true in 'the real world' or is it just a stereotype thats been blown way out of proportion??
I'm just curious
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From my experience, it's more the latter. Yes, of course, cliques exist. They exist in some form or another everywhere in life. Yes, the more "popular" people tend to hang out with other more "popular" people. But, no, in my experience the cliques are most certainly not mutually exclusive. If I would have been labeled as anything I would have been the "music geek" but I had friends that were "computer geeks" and I had friends that were "theatre geeks" and I had friends that were "jocks" and so on - and I had friends that were big into cheerleading while at the same time being one of the top music performers in the school as well. What you see in popular media is basically the result of taking the extremes of every "class" of person (i.e. the jock with the biggest ego that thinks everyone who's smart and wears glasses is a "nerd" and the geek who's in the chess club and talks funny and wears taped glasses) and using them as the norm. They are not the norm. At all. They are the exception.