What really is an outcast? Everyone is going to have a different view of what they consider an outcast. In grammar school and high school we might have noticed those few we call "Gothic" people, who wear dark clothes and dark make up and may not really talk much to anyone beside the people in their group. But are they really the outcasts or are you the outcast for not being like them. Most of the time an outcast is just anyone who doesn't fit in to the new groove of things. If you don't have the new coolest clothing or go to the coolest parties you are considered an outcast by the people who do have the coolest clothing and parties. But why has society let people judge others when this is suppose to be the land of the free? So called outcasts should be able to walk the streets and not have the feeling of shame and doubt just because they maybe a little different then the person ten feet away from them. but aren't we all a little different from each other? I've learned that its not right to judge people just by the way they look, and to give them a chance to speak before I start to assume things about them. You hear about high school and college shootings and right away people point fingers at the music industry and point out people or the so called "outcast" like Marilyn Manson. Yes, he may look different on the outside but he is a very intelligent person and if you really pay attention to his music he is not sending a bad message. He is letting people know he knows how it feels to be pointed at and called a freak or outcast. He wants to let other freaks or outcasts know they are not the only ones and they shouldn't let other people beat them down. People should be who they are and no one else. You shouldn't just like a song because its the new hot song out and the artiest is the most popular artiest out there, you should really listen to the song any song and pay attention to the words and the messge that the artiest is trying to get across. Some artiest think really hard while writing a song and find ways to get a message across or to somehow let people know that they feel the same as you and your not alone in this society of sterotyping!
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Can people choose to be outcasts, or do the "insiders" decide who is and isn't an outcast? How might it benefit an individual to be considered an outcast?
Did you see the Marilyn Monroe exhibit at the Chicago Cultural Center? What relation (not familial, of course) might she have to Marilyn Manson?
-- Kate
Lauren!!! I really enjoyed reading your piece. I felt like it came from a present point of view in what an outcast is like in our culture. My question to you is, would the world be affected negatively if there were no outcast?
I think people choose an outcast because its make them feel better about themselves. They don't care or even know nothing about the other person they label an outcast.
But we live in a sociality were there always have to be an outcast no matter what.
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