week 1

1- Recall the experience of being an outsider joining a new group. What wasunfamiliar in the language—and behaviors—of that group? How did your own attitudes and behavior begin to change as you grew to be accepted within that new community? How was that change captured in your language?






As we grow older, they will encounter a great deal of situations. For example, when we attend a new school, he or she will need to adjust and fit in with the new environment and people. As we come across new and interesting individuals, our behavior and language will try to bend in. some call it peer pressures, but it is natural for us human.

My family had moved for place to place five or six times in the past ten years, so I had lots of experience of being an outsider trying to fit into the new environment. I had noticed that each group of people had their own unique language and behavior, each act differently than other. Each of them had a theme, some groups always talk about hunting, other like to discuss about what to do or where to go over the weekend. All groups have one in common, that is the people in the group have similar behavior and under each other’s language. If an outsider wants to join a group, he or she needs to learn the behavior and the language to it to fit in completely.

I had personally experienced the changes in my behaviors and attitudes once I had fully been accepted into the group. For example, during my senior year in high school, I hang around the people who like boxing. Soon all I every talks about is boxing, and I had developed an interest in boxing. All these changes occur unexpectedly.

To blend in with the group seem to me are common in our society. Our judgments, behavior, and language have been modified by our consciousness to fit into the new environment. It is all part of life.