D9 stereotyping..

[AKA_Monet]

It is my understanding that children make trivial comparisons or stereotypes for learning discriminating behavior (discrimination means differentiating). It is a process of learning to identify the difference between right and wrong--or rather living vs. death--a matter of evolutionary survival.

What is interesting to me is that the pair group model that finds the psychologically "safest" group with the minimal amount of stress is the something that teens and young adults still use when some of them have poor self-esteem issues.

An "all or nothing"--i.e. why join, etc...-- is antisocial behavior. Avoidance of social situations has some suggestion of psychopathology. People must be socially acculturated to something. If not a GLO, then something else, like career, spelunking, drugs, whatever...

Personally, IMHO, doing community service thru my Sorority keeps me active. There is something that always needs to be done in my community.

When some people have those insenstive remarks about my visual appearance and my Sororal affiliations, I write it off. I have a medium tone with long hair, but I would not pass a paper bag test. Even my family pedigree does not protect me. However, I still became a member of my Sorority because I like maintaining my legacy heritage and keeping with family traditions. Those are my reasons.