Journal #16

       I do not remember a specific time when a person dressed differently. I do know that it has happened before. When someone wears something different than what people are used to, they tend to make fun of that person or talk about it behind their back. I think that this tends to happen in smaller schools, or with people that are with the same smaller group of people. This usually happens in small groups because they get into this comfortable little rut that they only except what fits into that rut. When something makes them feel out of their comfort zone, it makes them thrown off and they feel like they have to call it out and not like it. In a bigger group of people, this does not really happen at all, or at least nearly as much as with small groups. The more people, the bigger the diversity. If you are around all kinds of people all the time, you probably get used to it and do not think much of it if someone changes their style or dresses differently.This also most likely happens more in teenagers and young adults, than someone like our parents. We both do it, just in different ways. The styles we find different can be drastically opposites, which make us find some things okay, and some things just plain odd. I think that unless the clothes are inappropriate,too revealing or vulgar, then people should not make fun or call people out for wearing something different. Clothes are a part of self expression, and if people are made fun of for this, they will never find who they truly are and be just another ordinary, boring person. If anything, we should encourage people to dress however they please. When we do this, we are bound to be more accepting of anything, and in turn more well likes than someone who does not accept people who choose to dress differently.