In my unit? Well...
LAPD Cops: They tend to stick with eachother as their only friends and never show proper respect to new guys or even the older guys unless they are LAPD. Grudging acknowledgement to people from other law enforcement agencies. My dad was part of this clique, but I still have a low opinion of them even if I'm immune to their ire based on my fathers legacy as Operations SNCO before he retired. They all love me, I tend to avoid them. These guys used to run the unit until the ringleader had a heart attack and died, most of them(Dad included) have retired, and I can't wait until they are all gone. They represent old wounds to the unit that can never heal until they are all out.
Back Office: These are our paperpushers, the people who do all the administrative work for the unit. They are technically MP's as well, they have all the certifications, but they work 8 hour shifts and stretch their lunch breaks going off base to eat and stuff while we stay on base because we are armed, and work 12's. Generally horrible at PT and really bad shots, except some of the ascended regular troops who end up here for good admin skills. Inevitably, I will someday end up here, this is also the best place to climb rank.
Full Timers: The full time security staff on base are all naturally way closer to eachother because we work together, we also know the job better as a result of doing it every single day. Each shift of 6 or so people is very tight, and then holding the other full time shifts in slightly higher regard than the rest of the unit, even if they have people who suck in them.
Traditionals: These are pretty much anybody who isn't full time, the one-weekend-a-month folks, they socialize pretty freely and range from complete retards to really good troops. Many of them are prior service in the army or marine corps, and tend to work Sherrif/Search & Rescue/Fire/Security jobs. Aside from a few bad apples(The LAPD guys and select individuals) I like them.
The T Clique: The T Clique is a specific group of Back Office folks who tend to orchestrate most of the drama in the unit, T standing for the last name of our SM Sgt who is the ringleader, and the only person eligible to make Chief when our chief retires. He's boning the E-5 admin girl who is basically the secretary for the back office, and has a M Sgt who is basically just his toadie hanger on who he makes fun of alot. Also has ties to the back office guy in charge of the armory, but he's only an asshole when he's with them. When they get separated they are easier to handle, but together I avoid them like AIDS.
Ravens: The Phoenix Ravens of our unit, they travel together often and thus form pretty strong bonds, but aren't dickish or elitist. The two guys in charge are old friends of my dad, and currently good friends of mine. I hope to join their fold and get my Raven patch in the next year or two.
edited 31st May '10 4:37:22 AM by Barkey
About the only clique I know of in my university are the disabled people - it seems like they all know each other. I'm too socially oblivious to notice a clique I'm not part of.
If I'm asking for advice on a story idea, don't tell me it can't be done.
DUMB
Maybe this could be interesting. These are the groups that I can think of. All of them have about equal gender distributions unless noted, and are about 100% white given the area.
Band geeks: The only group I'm particularly a member of, the kids that go to band class during the day. Likes The Office, Seinfeld, shows like that. Lots and lots and lots and lots of sex jokes and sex, which comes with the innuendo of playing music I suppose. First-Name Basis with the director. Have a "quote book", which is basically like bash.org.
Choir and Drama: Band but more so.
Otaku: The anime fans. There are plenty of anime fans in other groups, but these people are the ones who make it their "thing". Mostly into shonen (Naruto, Death Note when it was popular, Mahou Sensei Negima), shojo (Fruits Basket, DN Angel), yaoi, and maybe yuri. They do stuff like wear cat ears to school. A couple of 'em write fanfic or original stuff, neither of which has seemed very good from what I've seen. I think that they're what Fandom Wank makes fun of.
Rednecks: Rednecks. They wear camo to school, and often skip school for hunting trips. Their overlarge trucks are covered in mud and bumper stickers ("coexist"
◊ but made out of weaponry, Calvin pissing on a Ford logo, etc.). Quite racist, homophobic, all that stuff. Most of them aren't going to college, and will stay around the area.
Mormons: We have a fuckton of Mormons around here for reasons I'm not quite clear on. About as straitlaced as teenagers can be, though they have Covert Pervert tendencies. Overwhelmingly Aryan. They've earned their reputation as The Nicest People In America, even when they're being homophobic or otherwise sexphobic. More intelligent than the school average.
Punks: They dress much like this
◊. Listen to loud music on iPods with speaker attachments, in some weird attempt to revive the boombox. I don't interact with them much.
Jocks: People who play sports, mostly male. As far as I can tell, all of them dislike the term "jock". In my experience, they're usually pretty nice and try to work hard in school. One of the biggest guys in the school is ASB President. I used to help him in Civics class.
Cheerleaders: Cheerleaders, mostly female. Pretty in a conventional way, and go out with the jocks usually. They usually seem nice, but I've heard that some can be very libbyish to each other.
RP Club: People who play roleplaying games after school. Nerdiest group in the school, mostly with Western media - D&D, Star Wars, far too many book series, Heinlein, etc. Led by the chem teacher, who's pretty conservative, and they often seem to be more mentally and politically conservative than others.
JROTC: Junior Reserve Officer's Training Corps.
The males have a tendency to be sexist pigs, though obviously that's not all of them. Has a fascist undercurrent since some sci-fi nerd joined and explained the premise of Starship Troopers. Can be somewhat condescending. They're pretty hard-working, though; a lot of them have gotten scholarships to various military and civilian schools.
And I think that's all of the groups. I don't think that it's really cliquish here, though. There's a ton of overlap, and all of these probably cover less than half the school, with everybody else in a variable mish-mash.
edited 31st May '10 10:19:40 AM by Tzetze
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The Wanderer
My high school was really small, so we didn't really have cliques, and my college has clubs, but no true cliques.
Eating a Vanilluxe will give you frostbite.
Adding in my own information. This is from my senior year of high school and is old as of now. I'll include updates on the current status where I know them.
Theatre geeks: The group that I was a member of. Consists of subgroups inside of it. The majority of them are sexually active and toss around sex jokes easily. The entire group is intermingled with choir and band due to sharing the building. The subgroups are the slackers who generally don't do much in the theatre without being ordered by the overachievers. The overachievers spend most of their time in the theatre and are the smallest group of the theatre geeks. Then there are the middle ground who sway between slacking and overachieving. They're generally the younger group. Most of these have moved to the slacker category this year.
Band geeks/Choir geeks: Largely overlap with theatre. Those that don't generally fit into the same category of theatre geek make the same criteria.
Athletes: Or jocks. Socially active in school. Overlaps with the redneck group largely. Generally gets good grades and are not terrible people.
Rednecks: Drive large trucks, tend to spend most of their time in the "Ag" classes. Not terribly intelligent, and generally only malicious due to ignorance. Will skip for various reasons.
Gangbangers: Children of drug runners. Rumored to have quite a lot of weapons. Drive large exquisite vehicles that do not match their income levels. Entirely Hispanic. Will often disappear for weeks or months at a time for various reasons. Not very social outside of their own group.
Most of these groups, minus the gangbangers, tend to intermingle and get along reasonably well under most circumstances.
dysfunctional human artistry
As far as high school goes... well, I went to geek school. There were groups, but I felt that they were fairly permeable and loosely defined for the most part. To crib off my adolescent psych terminology — I didn't notice crowds so much as I noticed cliques, probably because most of the school had the same crowd type (
). I suppose the syslab people were the closest that you could get to a 'crowd', but I knew plenty of them through litmag and philosophy club and whatnot. So.
I've only had a year in university, and I spent the majority of it being an antisocial quasi-hikikomori swearing silently at my partyin' suitemates, so I don't think I'm qualified to make observations about that yet.
edited 31st May '10 11:07:07 AM by Aoede
survival of the tight-lipped
I don't know much about this, but the First-Year of biology on the Free University of Amsterdam is pretty much like this:
Quiet people with social lives. (Nice people that get along well with everyone)
Loud people with social lives. (lively fellows/jerks that everyones find funny, even though they just can't shut up when the teacher is explaining what we are supposed to do at the next excursion)
Quiet people with no social lives. (People who get there to actually study. Includes a girl for eastern Europe, a guy who allready has a bachelor in something, and a 50 year old. Nice fellows, although little common ground can be found)
Loud people with no social lives. (AKA me and my two friends, nerds who can get a bit too excited when discussing the awesomeness of Heracross or the best way to play a Paladin, alienating them from the rest of the population.)
Representin Da Souf Syde
Mormons: We have a fuckton of Mormons around here for reasons I'm not quite clear on. About as straitlaced as teenagers can be, though they have Covert Pervert tendencies. Overwhelmingly Aryan. They've earned their reputation as The Nicest People In America, even when they're being homophobic or otherwise sexphobic. More intelligent than the school average.Eastern Washington and Oregon has a shitload of Mormons - the rain desert regions. Guess some moved to a large city for the amenities.
I am a Star Wars Fan, Warsie Here!
DUMB
I'm not in a large city.
It's just a thing. I'm sure there are reasons if I particularly cared.
edited 31st May '10 2:12:35 PM by Tzetze
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Cutmaster-san
Among the first-year math grad students we have:
- The native Chinese students
- Everyone else
Laugh it off, everybody
I'm going to do around town, since they're aren't really enough people in my school. I'll explain ones that need explaining.
- Goths
- Rednecks - By far there are the most of these.
- Emos - Often overlaps with goths
- Nerds - Yeah ther're like three....
- Graffiti Kids - For lack of a better name, these are the kids who like to put up graffiti and stickers all over town, the only group I really associate with. They are fond of the images I make.
- Wannabe Gangstas - Frequently overlaps with Rednecks, paradoxically they are almost all racists.
MASTER-DEBATER
Question. How was the social grouping for those in prep schools or magnet schools?
EDIT: one of the elite public magnet schools in my city apparently has a -lot- of rich people who go there.
edited 6th Jun '10 10:51:57 AM by BalloonFleet
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Night Clerk of the Apacalypse.
The Guards: Pretty self explanatory. We were in the building guarding it before it was even complete. 4 out of 5 of us have been working there for two years going on 3 now. The 5th man slot tends to be the drop slot. Everyone who is in it lasts a year before they either quit, are moved on or are fired.
The Info Security Guys. The tech and electronic part of the building I guard at. They are all pretty cool and the easiest to get on with. They have the best sense of humor of all the groups. They divide in tech support, some branch I can't ever remember, and Internal Security.
The rep relations crew. Quite possibly full of the biggest pack of drama and dicks in the whole building. They treat people like shit and act very snobbish. Some are very nice though and don't exactly bond into the rest of the cackling masses.
The Ops crew. A disjointed bunch because quiet a few of them have lost their jobs recently or got 90 day notices a few days back. they are starting to flaunt the rules and be stupid. Any future trouble will probably come from them.
Company officers: VP's and supervisors. Most of them are pretty nice but some just don't seem to grasp that cooperating with the guards in tornado warning is in their best interests. Can be assholes.
Execs. Company executives. They have nice but not lavish offices and are mostly polite.
Assorted 3rd floor. The third floor is the top of the pile. The floor of authority they are mixed bag and have many varying interactions with everyone because they have to.
Who watches the watchmen?
Where I "work", if you can call what I do "working":
- The Nerds. The people that get research grants. A mix of eccentric workaholic tenured professors, low - ranking instructors getting research cred, post - docs who couldn't find a better job, and students of various levels (maybe 60% master's, 25% Ph.D., 10% undergraduate, and 5% High School or other); due to the school budget problems most of us have desks and chairs but no salary, and most of the other office equipment was brought from home. Tend to talk about things that make very little sense to anyone else, but we'll drop everything to help someone. Divided by professional interest:
- fluids (water, wind, etc.)
- electromagnetic (lasers, x-rays, spark plugs, etc.)
- plasma (ionized gases, particle beams, etc.)
- materials (batteries, solar energy, etc.) - our group is subdivided by nationality similarly to Ironeye's math class.
- people from India.
- everyone else.
- Facilities. Basically, the people who clean up the mess. Typical conversation is, Well, you guys are trouble, but you aren't so bad, let me tell you what the other group did."
- janitorial staff
- the network guys
- hazardous chemical team
- major repairs & equipment moving people
- Administration. Very hospitable in person, yet difficult to work with because most of them only work three 4 - hour days a week if that, because multiple buildings are sharing the same team. Most of their job is figuring out how to pay for the stuff facilities has to fix and attempting to keep track of keys, since every door in the facility except restrooms is locked at all times.
edited 6th Jun '10 2:42:52 PM by FrodoGoofballCoTV
My high school is extremely small, so inter-clique reaction is commonplace. But there are some pretty obvious divisions.
- The "Popular" Crowd: Your basic group of socially adept teenagers. Most are involved in sports, although some are sorted into this clique through long time friendships with athletes (which can often be traced back to the local daycare, though I did not attend). There is a surprising hatred between the male athletes and the cheerleaders, yet the two groups often date one another.
- Male: Most, if not all, members of this group can be aptly described as "douchebags". They enjoy pretending to be sexually active, cursing for the sake of cursing, listening to rap music, and being racist/sexist/homophobic.
- Female: Though mostly consisting of friendly types, this group has its fair share of cattiness and drama. Often seen taping signs to peoples' lockers, writing cutesy messages on car windows, and using bracket-mouthed smilies.
- Social Run-off: The group to which I belong. The largest clique in terms of membership due to its vague description. Gets along well with the Popular Crowd, but is considered separate due to certain quirks. A conglomerate of gamers, band and chorus geeks, Star Wars fans, Scholastic Bowl members, and book lovers. Contains one or two Popular kids who have strayed from the flock. Often make sex jokes despite the majority of them being virgins. Never seem to understand my television references.
- Rednecks: Very similar to the Male members of the Popular crowd, only with more camouflage, trucks, country music, and racism/sexism/homophobia. And hunting. Lots and lots of hunting.
- Drugees: A small group of once-Populars who didn't stop at somking cigarettes like most Male Populars, with whom they still socialize. Often talk about Call of Duty.
- Weeaboos: Your run-of-the-mill Japanophile group. Enjoy such things as Naruto, Death Note, Kingdom Hearts, drawing chibis, and adding "-chan" to the end of everybody's name.
- Other: The most depressing clique. Their general behavior is largely undocumented due to few people taking any interest in them. Often the victims of ridicule.
edited 20th Jun '10 3:12:57 PM by SaturnCity
OMG NO NOSECONES
Since I'm in Hawaii, my workplace is a polyglot mishmash of groups.
Locals People that have been born and raised in Hawaii. Often of Polynesian or Filipino ancestory, but on occasion, may have European blood in them. Frequently seen wearing flip-flops once the steel-toed shoes come off. Likes SPAM, rice, plate lunch and mango. Frequently speaks in pidgin or with a detectable pidgin accent. Don't let the bad grammar fool you, they can be really sharp of wit.
Retirees/Veterans I belong here. Either former Navy or some other branch. Tends to gravitate to leadership or management roles. Tells outlandish stories (some actually true) of their time on the USS Ustafish or Fort Last Duty Station. On occasion, can also be a Local. Subset of this group are the:
Good Old Boy Network Retirees who served together in the Navy. Almost excusively Civil Servants, as opposed to contractors. Pessimistic, moody, and the holders of power. Do not cross them. Due to their seniority and age, they can be a wonderful source of information on a wide variety of things; I data-mine these guys often.
Submariners Former Naval Submariners. They're crazy. Must be lingering effects of being crammed in a tin can for months at a time. Has some really off-color jokes and likes to call those that can't cut the mustard such interesting euphanisms like - NUB, Oxygen Thief, Piece of FOD, Deadweight, Skimmer Puke or some other term. Tend to have a good work ethic, and you want one of these when something bad happens, as they know how to respond to disasters very well. Like to play pranks on others, an old habit they had while on a submarine.
Finally, you have the rarest of groups that don't fit anywhere else.
Non-local Civilians People that are neither retirees, veterans or locals. Somehow, they end up here. They tend to be transfers from other business units or the children of retirees that ended up moving out here. Mixed bag. Tend to have trouble adjusting to life outside of work and adjusting to the odd way business works here. If they land a job in management, they can have trouble getting the workers to accept their 'vision' of work standards.
Happiness is zero-gee with a sinus cold.
MASTER-DEBATER
My mother's work social groups. (she works for the ILDPR, used to work in the city proper and now was transferred to a suburban district - at least temporarily)
CTA/Police/Firefighters/Sanitation workers. Other city and state civil servants. Middle class black people. Some (many?) of whom my mother knew from my father's time in the Chicago Fire Department, or they grew up in the same neighborhood of the city or went to the same church or school when younger. They live in areas which range from "semi-ghetto" (a white girl described my old neighborhood as that while trying to deny my ghettoness :|) to middle class" (Chatham) to "old school wealth neighborhood" (see Hyde Park as an example). They know me from my younger years, but do not socialize with them a lto now due to issues with my mother.
ILDPR coworkers. Similar to the before mentioned group, only they're more multiethnic. They get along well with my mother, and she has gone to 'indian retreats' with some of them, and my mother goes occasionally to social events with them etc. Same as before as in I do not spend a lot of time with them out of issues with my mother. They live through the chicago metro area, including some pretty rich suburbs. Apparently they are interested in me a lot. Until I am free of her control/am autonomous [referring to my mother] I am wary of beign sen with her in groups.
The black baptist church my family set up in the 1980s from an auto shop. Earlier (As in 5-10 years ago) there were more people there. There was a split, and the membership plummeted. I rarely go here, just check on it rarely. Lots of family members here (they set up the church), now mainly aged family members who were part of the Second Great Migration. Given they're family members who knew each other their entire lives, they also set up cooking/grilling events by the church, are involved in the funerals of their kin, and help set up family reunions. My mother did a lot of this too (planning family reunions % whatnot)
My grandfather's social groups were:
Boxing friends and (SOME OF) the local 'high society' (for lack of a better term). He [and me] met Barack Obama when he was an Illinois State Senator/was doing law @ the university of Chicago. He also knew some of the local aldermen and the county sheriff & whatnot. He stayed out of the politics and violent shit, given the whole 'Chicago Politics' noteriety. How this came about is due to his history being a chicago police officer & those boxing events he was invited to due to his boxing history (he knocked out Marciano in a practice match once). here and here.
Police Officer buddies. You know, the fraternal order of police officers - retired police officers who occasionally meet up at a restaurant or diner and check on each other from their times in the police force. They act as police officers do, friendly and whatnot (maybe this was due to me being related to one of them - but they seemed 'cool' - lol stereotype).
MY grandmother's social groups overlapped w/my mother & grandfather's groups given both grandparents came from the same mississippi town & they went into similar work (She worked for the city government too after running a small restaurant).
EDIT: I didn't do any of my social groups as they're similar to the other groups (the weeaboos/general nerds/etc). Soooo.
What else? Other that the fact that I just doxed myself :p
edited 27th Sep '10 10:15:17 AM by BalloonFleet
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At my HS theres:
- Jocks
- Rich Kids/"Cool Kids"
- Thugs/Gangsters
- Nerds
- Geeks
- Dorks
- Goths
- Band Geeks
The whole spectrum is pretty much covered
edited 30th Sep '10 6:56:12 PM by InfiniteBlaze
YOSH!
It's very difficult to categorize us. We don't have many specified groups, but the ones that exist are obvious.
Huh, my Geek / Outcast section sounds basically like Saturn City's Social Run-off group
- The Geeks/Outcasts: This is very hard to describe. I call use the kids who sit at the ramp and outside the auditorium. We consist of many overlapping groups but but mainly we like science fiction, fantasy, Magic the gathering, video games, and other geeky things. There are geeks that hang out elsewhere and with different groups, but we're the biggest conglomerate. Also most likely to have ADD, ADHD, and Aspergers. The people there are:
- The Technical Education kids: The kids with geeky interests who happen to take classes like autobody, technical drawing, and engineering physics, and classes like that. The point is, all of us who are geeks and know the the tech-ed teachers very well. I was one of them.
- The Metal Heads/Goths: All the punk rockers, metal heads, etc, etc. And They overlap heavily with the goth kids who were upperclassmen. I think the goth subculture is kinda gone becuase the upperclassmen who were goth basically took the whole subculture with them. Anyhow, the metal head kids are loud hyperactive knuckle heads and most of them play Magic the Gathering. In fact I met a few of them by accident Otakon.
- The Anime Club: I'm the president of these people and they and their friends hang out in this conglomerate. Basically gamers and anime fans who happen to overlap in these other groups.
- The Theatre Snob Rejects: The Theatre kids are snobs. Huge snobs. They tend to stick together but those who have slightly geeky interests end up with us, like my friends Nic (Who wants to be an actor and desperately tries to be one of them but is ultimately our friend) and Michael (Their stage combat specialist but also metal head and anime club guy). These are the ones who aren't snobs and instead don't have hanging out rights with the other theatre kids. Rather sad really.
- Music people: Yeah a lot of band and chorus students hang out in our general area
- Art and graphic design Students: Same with art students but not high numbers. I'm one of the few art students that hang out in the geek conglomerate.
- The Theatre Techs: Basically theater students who do the technical stuff and basically they overlap with Tech-Ed students and one other group. The ones that hang out with the geeks are generally calm, cool, collected, exceedingly relaxed, and very smart. The techs who aren't geeks and don't hang out in this section tend to be short-tempered and panicky.
- The Theatre Snobs: As my pal John and I like to call them, they are kind of sort of like popular kids. They're the smart energetic ones you want to hang out with but they want nothing to do with you. With rare exceptions like my pals Nic and Michael and anime club successor Dani and the Theatre kids's icon of perfection Ellen, they basically are a homogeneous uniculture of people who will ignore you if you volunteer are try to be friendly with them. The older ones are big on politics and latin.
- The Preppies: Some combination of rich kids and jocks, basically the athletic pretty people who hang out at the senior lounge during lunch. They're not bad people, not in the slightest, many are good acquaintances of mine. Perhaps not very bright.
Yeah, those are the most obvious categorizable groups in the school, everything else is not big enough to be cliques or groups are are just groups of friends. And the Preppy group was me pushing it. It's basically the Geek Conglomerate and the Theatre Snobs.
Smallest high school in the county.
edited 30th Sep '10 7:08:49 PM by ACDrawings
When All Else Fails, you have fun and flirt wit da ladies, dats da Drawings way!
Okay, let's see for my college:
Locals: From the city, mostly from a working-class background, many are here on scholarship, and even more pay their own way. Very good work ethic, though they tend to seem more laid-back than everyone else - but in reality, they're more stressed than the resit of us.
Transplants: Non-freshmen who spend their time mostly in Riverside, usually due to moving there. A little less laid-back, but work their asses off. Most, however, never venture much beyond the Village, or any point west of Chicago Street. Technically, I'm part of this group, though I've been in most of the major areas of the city.
Commuters: Basically, they're essentially just here for the education - they come in during the daytime, they sit in class, and they leave. Sometimes they become "honorary" members of the other groups, but more often they're just essentially numbers to most of the others.
Also, there are other ways to divide the population:
Honors students/scholarship kids: I belong to this group too. Tend to keep to themselves a little more than the general population; many live in one hall, and others naturally gravitate there. Mostly white or Asian, with a sizable Hispanic section and a few token African-Americans. Tend to be able to finesse things from their professors due to their status. Basically a sort of "good ol' boys" group.
Sports kids: Mostly here on athletic scholarship. Tend to share many of the same privileges as the previous group, but tend to be more known to the average student. They're the public face of the top.
Activists: Very prominent, usually pretty personable... unless you start talking politics, in which case fights requiring the police have actually resulted when, say, C Rs and C Ds are in the same room en masse. Tend to be skeptical of the administration and of officialdom in general. Oftentimes are batshit insane.
Evangelicals: Mostly Korean-Americans, they're a pillar of the community - they're known for attempting to entice people to their clubs via free or cheap food. Most get the food and don't stay for the sermon. They're involved in almost everything, though, disproportionate to their numbers.
Note there's considerable overlap among all these groups.
MASTER-DEBATER
>>Nerds >>Geeks >>Dorks
What is the difference in this context?
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In my high school there is a lot of over lap between the groups. For the most part there is
- Rich Popular kids who are smart but lazy- exactly what it says, usually upper middle class people who play sports, and usually go to the same church or something(I live in the South, almost everything is structured around church)
- Rich Popular kids who are smart and not lazy- same as top, only they don't usually date or cuss. Or if they do date, they do 50's kind of dating with going to the movies and little pecks on the cheek.
- Black popular kids- Sorry if you think this is racist, but it's true. Again, in the South EVERYTHING is segregated, to the point where in most classrooms without assigned seats, there is almost a line in the classroom between black and white.
- Emos/Anime lovers- Often people who actually have stuff to complain about mixed in with people who are just in it for the attention. Emos tends to overlap with anime lovers for some reason, don't know why.
- Trailer trash- often overlaps with emos.
- Assorted weirdos- everybody else lol.
Banned
Well in high School, there was a few group a I really remember but it was all pretty much intermingled, Most people belong to multiple clicks.
- Jocks/Cheerleaders/Popular kids - Averted The Libby and Jerk Jock at my school. They were popular because they were nice, kind and caring not douchebags and cunts. (Give or take a few.)
- Pot Heads
- Drama
- Choir/Band- They were pretty tight knit, but they inter mingled too.
- Nerds/Otaku- found more nerds among the Jocks and Drama kids than anywhere else.
- Outcasts - These were usually the Loners Are Freaks types, Nobody was shunned without a usually good reasons, Give or take a few exceptions.
I was a Nerd/Outcasts but towards the end of high school I had friends in every social group, mostly popular kids and Pot Heads.
After High school My current haunt is the local library and food court when I have free time. These groups are less mingled-
Old People - Like over 60+, don't usually talk to younger folk tend to travel in pairs, or large packs. I know that sounds wrong, but that's the best way I could put it.
Pot Heads - Stoners, smoker's, and Drunks, even if you don't do any of the following if you did your usually still friends.(My group Former pot head, 2 years straight. )
High Schoolers - Varies it's a different school than my old one, but they're generally Nerds or Outcasts. (Ex-group)
Gamers - Table Top games (Also my group)
Crackheads - Not any more most got arrested.
edited 1st Oct '10 9:05:39 PM by americanbadass
[[User Banned]]_ My Pm box ix still open though, I think?
MASTER-DEBATER
Black popular kids- Sorry if you think this is racist, but it's true. Again, in the South EVERYTHING is segregated, to the point where in most classrooms without assigned seats, there is almost a line in the classroom between black and white.Well in my high school, in freshman year everyone self-segregated based off our seating arrangement off race (black/white/hispanic). I think over time people did that less/made friends differently over time (the weeaboos/artists/theter&band/music geeks were integrated that way). I remember one of my freshman teachers fucking w/the seating arrangement because 'we self-segregated'
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You know the classic cliques in high school and college (note I am speaking from a US centric POV - hence me asking other people on this forum)
Frat boys/jocks Athletic people (there -is- a different as athletics dont have to be obsessed w/hierachy as jocks) Nerds and Geeks (what difference is there again lol :p) -social- nerds/geeks (see lots of Debate Team, model UN, Academic Decathalon etc). Also stronger/easier to notice in magnet schools and prep/private schools. bunch of outcasts who form a single group Hipsters - well. look @ LATFH site and SWPL ('look at this fucking hipster' and 'stuff white people like' respectively)
yadda yadda. Please explain the groupings you have seen in your personal experiences.
EDIT: regional and national differences - like the classic 'Yacht Club' used by middle/upper class people in large cities, or 'old money' social networks from 'blue blood' elites in Massachusetts (sp?), Rhode Island, or Connecticut etc etc. (see Family Guy as an example). In related social networks, see middle/upper class in NYC - especially Manhattan and the prep schools, investment bankers, people descended from Rockefellers and Vanderbilts etc.
EDIT 2: Or ghetto debate teams and how they are AWESOME. Or groups in universities in the midwest USA formed from people from bumfuck small towns in the midwest who 'stick' together for networking/assistance/etc in college towns and large US midwestern cities.
etc etc.
edited 31st May '10 12:33:07 AM by Warsie
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