You can't judge a book by its' cover...

Wow…It’s shocking to think that my ten-week cross-cultural experience is over! Looking back at my older blog posts, it’s amazing how much I learned. When I chose my blog topic, I set out to find the answer to why rich teenagers act the way they do. I never understood the underage drinking and looking like a fool, the buying $500 jeans, etc. But over the past ten weeks, I’ve come to find an understanding for this behavior.
Through various readings, interviews and youtube videos, I found that it’s not always the “choice behavior” for those exhibiting it. For example, when a friend from high school heard that other students felt inferior to her because of the way she dressed, she felt awful.
Many times, the media plays a large role in the way we view other people and cultures. It is stereotypes presented by the media that give us preconceived opinions about various cultures, such as rich teens. Over the past 2 and a half months I realized that I was reading far too much into the stereotypes presented to me, and not taking the time to try to fully understand the culture.
Although I will never have a full understanding of some of the characteristics of the rich teenage culture, I now have an understanding for many of the things that they do. There is the saying, you can’t always judge a book by its cover. This is the case for the typical rich teen. What meets the eye isn’t always reality.



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