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Is this divisive jock/preppy/nerd/skater/gangsta shit still going on 23 years after I left high school? I thought y'all zoomers were better than that.
hello, I'm a 2020 hs graduate, I'm probably in the zoomer category. from my experience, this does not exist outside of movies.
fun /s
I mean, as a nerd with no interest in prom, it wasn't all bad. My hs has us still do graduation almost as normal (masks and spacing, ofc), with the only major difference being that it was split across multiple days so we could fit everyone on the front lawn.
The fact that they had to do the speeches six times was the only reason I was slightly glad to have missed out on being valedictorian/salutorian
pretty boring tbh. most of it was the same, just with masks on, and classes online. thankfully, mu part of australia was mostly unaffected by covid, so final WACE exams were basically the same. the big send off was already done before hand
Actually not. You can be a massive nerd these days and still go get fucked up and party.
There will always be popular extroverts and unpopular introverts.
Can we stop this "Introvert" BS? An "introvert" is someone who will tend to keep their thoughts to themselves. Nothing more. This "the extroverts are the sports guys and the introverts are the intellectuals" is completely made up and people will not like you more or less depending on wether you wear your heart on your tongue or not.
That's not correct at all, and it's funny because you're so confident about it
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraversion_and_introversion
That's not how they're defined, just typical manifestations of the underlying personalities.
Introverts emotionally recharge from alone time, extroverts emotionally recharge from time with others.
Me at parties with strangers
I will still eat your snacks, but please don't talk to me
This is exactly the kind of made up division I'm talking about. There is no such thing as "someone who 'emotionally recharges X or Y way'".
First of all: Why exactly would Wikipedia - edited by thousands - be wrong if the way you put is "what they are defined as"? Wouldn't people have written Wikipedia that way then?
Next, there is no such thing as "emotionally recharge". Our "emotions" aren't a battery. Also, there is "recharging process" or anything. Generally speaking: Activities that make us happy in that very moment "recharge" our batteries. Parents of young children will confirm that this not neccessarily a task that gives you respite, but can be the most exhausting thing ever, still you'll come out of it with more energy than before.
And we all - everyone! Yes, you too! - have varying ways of doing that. Sometimes, we'll want to be around others and it'll do us good, sometimes we want to be alone and it'll do us good. While all people will have tendencies towards one way or another, no one has a defined "recharging mode". No one.
And lastly: The main issue with this division into "introverts" and "extroverts" is not that it's impossible to divide people by that line. You can, as you can with many, many other lines one could draw. The issue is that people offhandedly attribute all kinds of stuff to this division. All of a sudden, extroverts are "loud" and "confident" and "energetic" and "sports guys". Even IF we applied your definition... how would the way someone wants to take a break in lead to them being even one of those things? It's just not logical.
Is that...the Chewbacca defense?
Guess what kind of activities the average outgoing and energetic teenager will pick to indulge in compared to the more reflective and reserved teenager. Sports.
You just proved your own statement wrong.
How would a tendency to keep thoughts on the inside instead of the outside make you more prone to being a sports guy?
I didn't say anything else in this thread