Scattered throughout the hallways, different groups of friends can be recognized simply by the way they dress, act or even talk. Based on the nature of growing up, everybody goes in and out of these phases regularly.
Although there are tons of stereotypes teens fall into, specifically guys, there are three that seem to occur more than most: bros, hipsters and jocks.
A bro can be defined by long hair, snapback hat and listening to rave music. A perfect example of a “Bro” in our school is senior Wesley Holton. Holton can be found on the senior bench with his lax (lacross) shorts on, red flow peaking out behind his snapback hat and pulled up hood.
“To be a bro you’ve gotta have a lot of swag. Lax is what united us bros” Holton said. ” You gotta work the sick flow, be chill, not really care, and most importantly have both kinds of lettuce.”
His vocabulary consists of “radical, gooh, hyphy, and rage.” He plays lacrosse almost every day.
A hipster’s natural habitat is a coffee shop with indi-rock playing smoothly in the background. Dressed to impress, hipsters attire includes skinny jeans, tee shirts with sayings on them like “go green,” sweatervests/cartigans with scarves, tom shoes and, of course, big chunky high fashion glasses.
Hipster interests include anything on their Mac. They are all over the hottest trends on Twitter, Facebook and Tumblr.
Senior Calvin Mills is known throughout the school as being one of the most stand out hipsters around. “I just do it. I’ve always done it, I grew up like this and my friends dress exactly the same” Mills said. ” I like looking good and not being a bum. It identifies the music side of me since I’m so involved with it in multiple ways”.
And let’s not forget about the fellow jocks and how they percieve themselves. Top notch, stand out in sports, and have very attractive appearances. Just like in the movies, jocks stand out among the students, respectively.
Hotshot junior Sam Wegenke has a lot of feelings about being known as this stereotype. “I play sports a lot, I love physical activity” Wegenke said. “A lot of people think I’m really stuck up and underprivileged and get everything handed to me.But once you get to know me, you will realize that I work for everything”.
Whether the upperclassmen or underclassman embrace their specific stereotype or not, it all comes from their own interests and opinions of things. All students have their differences, but that doesn’t make anybody better than anybody else.
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