Are Cliques Good or Bad?

Have you ever stopped and thinked maybe your school might have groups which are categorized into what are known as cliques? Every school has "cliques", small groups of people with similar interests who hang out entirely with one another. We have our preps, emos/scenes, goths, jocks, gangsters, nerds, normal, etc. But, have you ever asked yourself if cliques are good for us, or bad for us? There are two sides to this story.

Cliques can be good for us. Cliques can give people a feel of belonging an idea where they stand. It gives you people to hang out with. No one wants to feel left out, especially if they're new. Remember when you were first new to the school? Did you know who to hang out with? Or who to talk to? Cliques can be a good thing for the people in this category. Take the movie "Mean Girls" as an example, the new girl found herself a clique but soon started to change in a way that was not so good, which leads me to the reasons why cliques are bad.

There are many reasons to believe why cliques are unhealthy for us. They are a social group, but sometimes those social groups' puts other people down and tell the people in the clique that you can't hang out with a certain person. If they are really your friends then they would accept who you hang out with and won't judge you about the fact with you hang out with someone that the clique does not like. you are a individual person and you can decide for yourself you to hang out with and who to not hang out with! Another thing might be that they make people who they know really want to be in the clique do bad things to stay in the clique. The clique will do awful things to those who so want to be part of the "clique", like they would tell those who want to be part of their group so bad to do things that they the "clique" would never do or even the people who want to be in their group would never do if not. Those will do those things because they want to be part of the coolest group in school. Those who desire to be in the clique usually do not confess the television shows they watch or the type of music they listen to unless the "cool kids" watch the same thing or listen to the same music or else the "cool kids" would make fun of them.

Some people like cliques and some people don't. You can't really pick between the two . It would be great if there were no such thing as cliques and everyone got along with everyone, that way no one would be left out and everyone would have a sense of belonging. They are impossible to prevent though, because people will always have best friends and will always hang out with them more, creating there clique. This leaves people out, creates a sense of exclusion. Also, you need to have close friends as opposed to being friends with everyone because if your friends with everyone you're not likely to be as close to them as you are with