The Role to Assimilate

To fit in with the majority of society you have to have the trending clothes, listen to the bestselling album on iTunes, basically like what other people around you like. Is it common for us to see this every day at school, when a person feels like an outcast for not having the latest game, or getting the coolest phone? I think it’s safe for me to say I sometimes feel I need to assimilate when I don’t have something that majority of my friends have, well I think we call all say that. Something about not having or looking like the rest of the society can make us believe we have to try harder to fit in when really just being yourself is all that counts. In the play A Raisin In The Sun assimilation plays a role in the character Beneatha Younger she is a young African American living in a time period where to fit it with society was important, and to society I’m referring to the White American’s young Beneatha tries her hardest to accomplish the silky, straight hair that only the white population have. The play, plays it as a weakness to Benatha it shows her weakness to truly just be her own self. It’s hard for me to say if I see people around me trying to assimilate, well I can just say that for my friends. On the other though the fashion trends have been seen not only through school, but in the public to you can go to Walmart and see a person wearing a hat, and another on their pants. It’s just simple to follow the most trending things or topics it’s what gets you noticed that’s bad to say, but that’s what it’s coming to for many it’s so hard to truly be yourself.  I never try to fit in with the majority of the society I tend to like the most unusual, uncommon things like listing to Indie and seeing low budgeted films, and I can truly say my friends don’t care that I don’t dress like them, or even listen to the same music they seem to just love me for being me, and that’s all that counts.