Categories aren't only bad because they give you a, sometimes false, interpretation of reality, but also because categories are hard to get out of. People change. The elementary school bully might change when they get into high school- but because this bully was put into a category of being a bully everyone still thinks of them that way. This girl might be put into the category of being a nerd, or loud, obnoxious, anything. But what if she isn't. What if those are the only glasses her parents could afford. And the reason she's so smiley is because she never gets to at home. Especially in middle school and high school it is really hard to get out of a category that you might not be in anymore.
http://www.icesi.edu.co/blogs/antro_conocimiento/files/2012/02/Hacking_making-up-people.pdf
In this link it shows how categories so change- usually this change starts occuring after high school years. It talks about social change. That about every ten years a change occurs in society. Sometimes this change can help out awkward people or weird people and make them the popluar ones. It's a different change in high school. It's more of a cover up to me. Social change occurs but it's usually the already popluar kids making the change.
I never really thought of this but I can totally agree with it. I know that everyone changes as they grow up and when you're in grade school you get labeled as something. But when you grow up you also grow out of that label.
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