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High School as I knew it was divided in the extreme into the music students and students who did not do choir or band. Each sect had individual lunches and seperate sheduals. There was also a tendency among the music group to enjoy school more and excel in the classroom. These "overgroups" gave way to smaller units. In the non-music crowd there were the Jocks, Hicks, and Pot-heads. Inversely, the other half of the student body was made up of Drama Students, English Nerds, Preps, and Band Geeks.

In my school these cliques were inforced by the shirts you wore. Drama students wore production t-shirts, sporting the many productions they'd been in. Hicks wore flannel polos with the sleeves torn off and a john deer hat perched on their temple. Jocks wore shirts from the championships. But none were as obvious as the Preps, with their American Eagle, Hollister, Calvin Klein, and Aeropostale clothing.

Humans have an inherent need to label everything. It seems we have a problem with ambiguity. The undefineable scares us, its the same reason we have externalized our fears throughout history in order to explain the unexplainable. I am talking about the concept of witches, devil-worhsipers, ghosts, and all other supernatural extrema. These are examples of what happens, witches in primary, when individuals do not fall into "popular" categories. Yes, the example is quite archaic, but the same pathology holds true in society today. We are much more accepting of an individual if they fit nicely into a stereotype of some sort.