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Popularity
I just recently moved from Beverly Hills to a suburb town in Pennsylvania. In Beverly Hills, the popular girls were the ones who wore Versace Jeans, carried Louis Vuitton purses, and checked their Coach watches for the time. I thought that moving to this town where there weren't Louis Vuitton addicts would mean that there wouldn't be a totally popularity ruling, but at my school there ARE popular kids who are taking control of the school! I was just wondering what makes someone popular?
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There are a lot of qualities that makes someone popular; at my school, if you're pretty, skinny, wear the latest styles in clothing, play sports, have a lot of friends, then you're popular. Even if you don't fit into the "popular" crowd, you don't have to be pretty and such to be popular, you just have to be outgoing and friendly and people will like you. You don't have to have a Louis Vuitton purse or Versace jeans to be popular. A person's personality also has an affect on their "social status"; if they're nice, friendly, and all those things, then that can help. People who are stuck up are probably popular but don't think most stuck up people, the jocks/preps, and such are popular because there is more to being popular.
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Most of the time it is that their rich, that they have great parties. But the other 6% of the time it's that their nice to everybody, and everybody like them. But you have to know, that in every school you go 2, there will be popular kids.
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Popularity is supposed to be about how many friends you have but it has changed from that. I live in England and we don't have a popularity problem as big as the one I see in America although we do slightly. To be popular nowadays you need to have the right hair, make up, shoes, clothes, be rich, live in a nice house, throw the best parties, have the best looking girlfriend/boyfriend, go in for all the sporting activites, walk right, be perfect. Basically, most of the really popular people buy their friends. It is better to be popular within a group of nice people than to be incredibly popular and known to the whole school. To be honestly popular you just have to be yourself, don't try and be perfect in order to get friends. Don't become like Regina George on Mean Girls, she was only popular because people were scared or amazed by her. Be popular because of who you are, not who all the sterotype popular girls are. Popularity shouldn't matter anyway, as long as you have a small group of supportive friends then you don't need to be all that popular. I know I'm not and it doesn't matter to me because I have a hand full of friends that I know well instead of a massive crowd that I hardly know. I'm not all that sure if I answered your question or not but I hope it helped you in some small and unimportant way.
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to have alot of friends.
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