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[Lightningfalcon]

At our school, no.   You might consider some of the large organizations to be cliques, as the NJ people tend to hand out a lot, along with the band people, swimming team people, and so on, but there is LOTS of overlap.  A lot of people in band are in NJ, and most people in a team tend to be on another team a

[Putnam]

NJ?

[Lightningfalcon]

NJ?

Sorry, Naval Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps.  Much easier to say NJROTC, and a bit easier to say NJ.  Basically, we sit in a classroom for an hour and get told how great the navy is.  Our, in the case of our teacher, who is a former Commander, we get taught boring leadership lessons. 

[Putnam]

Oh, okay. We don't have a NJROTC, but an AFJROTC here, so it's a bit confusing.

[Lightningfalcon]

Oh, okay. We don't have a NJROTC, but an AFJROTC here, so it's a bit confusing.

I would probally be equally confused then if you said AFJ. 

[Putnam]

We don't, we say (J)ROTC

[Scoops Novel]

Well, I finished secondary school past year, and I have to say that cliques don't really exist. While it's true that there were some groups of friends that always hanged out and the like, but there were not any group were you were not allowed to be. They existed because of affinities, just that. But I feel that I have to point out that male groups lasted years, while female ones didn't last long.

The people that formed the nearest things to a clique were a kind of "I'm better than the rest of the society" people, so they hanged out with few people just to feel that their group was more exclusive, while, in fact, their members weren't even close friends. In all this groups thing, I was the one who could hang out with any of them, but, at the same time, I wasn't very close with any, I just didn't have common interests with any, and the topics of conversation were boring in th elong term. Anyway I can recall a kind of group which I never hanged out with: the kind of people that just drink and try to appear that do cool stuff, I found them as the least interesting people.

But, I have to say that the effects of media caused a wannabe "popular" clique to appear within my classmates while we just started the secondary school. Nobody liked them, and nobody cared too much, but for some reason hat group was like the main one in the classroom. Maybe it was just because nobody else wanted to be the center of the attention.

I have found that media has a really important power to influence many aspects of a person and the way he relates to other ones, even affecting the way a person speaks (read below).

Additional information: I live in Argentina, we speak Spanish here, but we have a particular way of speaking: most of our verb conjuations differ in the stressing and sometimes the pronoun we use to speak. The media that influences us, if it doesn't come form the local community, usually has a classical Spanish accent. I have to say that it is really irritating to hear a child who speakis in an Spanish tone, because it means that he has been watching a lot of television, without human contact.
While I don't care about regional use of certain words (like can or tin in English), I find the Spanish accent in our country to be a way of loosing our own culture and letting the media to brainwash our population.

Diclaimer: it's all ok with Spain and it's inhabitants (really, I'm not a xenophobe by any means), I just don't like children here speaking like if they had been born there, not because of the culture, but because of the brainwashing.

Can you specify the bolded? I imagine they were less then accurate about this, given present company's omnipresent streak for such things .

[Skyrunner]

People, we have successfully peerpressuredcorrected the thread title! Rejoice, o us linguists xD

[LordSlowpoke]

My high school, with classes a grand total of 12-18 students each, was too tiny to host any remarkable cliques. That, or they were 2-3 people each, which doesn't really make it a clique in my book. Middle school was full of these, though, and ridiculously exclusive by the time second year hit.

[Tomcost]

The people that formed the nearest things to a clique were a kind of "I'm better than the rest of the society" people

Can you specify the bolded? I imagine they were less then accurate about this, given present company's omnipresent streak for such things .

They were people with a kind of inferiority complex who liked to say that everyone else is wrong in their lifestyle, comlaining about habitsm ways to archieve happiness, and mainly that, although no explicity. I remember that they used the word "plebian" when talking about the rest of the people. I apologize for my lack of ability to express things correctly.

[Scoops Novel]

The people that formed the nearest things to a clique were a kind of "I'm better than the rest of the society" people

Can you specify the bolded? I imagine they were less then accurate about this, given present company's omnipresent streak for such things .

They were people with a kind of inferiority complex who liked to say that everyone else is wrong in their lifestyle, comlaining about habitsm ways to archieve happiness, and mainly that, although no explicity. I remember that they used the word "plebian" when talking about the rest of the people. I apologize for my lack of ability to express things correctly.

No problem. "Plebian" says a lot, but we're not exactly far off as to a dissatisfied view of everyday life, so qualifiers are handy.There wasn't a goth element to it was their?

[Graknorke]

The people that formed the nearest things to a clique were a kind of "I'm better than the rest of the society" people

Can you specify the bolded? I imagine they were less then accurate about this, given present company's omnipresent streak for such things .

They were people with a kind of inferiority complex who liked to say that everyone else is wrong in their lifestyle, comlaining about habitsm ways to archieve happiness, and mainly that, although no explicity. I remember that they used the word "plebian" when talking about the rest of the people. I apologize for my lack of ability to express things correctly.

No problem. "Plebian" says a lot, but we're not exactly far off as to a dissatisfied view of everyday life, so qualifiers are handy.There wasn't a goth element to it was their?

Hey, I say "plebian" sometimes. Not as a serious putdown, but still. The word does not define the intent.

[Scoops Novel]

The people that formed the nearest things to a clique were a kind of "I'm better than the rest of the society" people

Can you specify the bolded? I imagine they were less then accurate about this, given present company's omnipresent streak for such things .

They were people with a kind of inferiority complex who liked to say that everyone else is wrong in their lifestyle, comlaining about habitsm ways to archieve happiness, and mainly that, although no explicity. I remember that they used the word "plebian" when talking about the rest of the people. I apologize for my lack of ability to express things correctly.

No problem. "Plebian" says a lot, but we're not exactly far off as to a dissatisfied view of everyday life, so qualifiers are handy.There wasn't a goth element to it was their?

Hey, I say "plebian" sometimes. Not as a serious putdown, but still. The word does not define the intent.

It does suggest either a snobby attitude or a limit to how much what your saying matters to you, and he did mention this seemed to be all they talked about.

[Loud Whispers]

It does suggest either a snobby attitude or a limit to how much what your saying matters to you, and he did mention this seemed to be all they talked about.

GET ON MY LEVEL PLEBS

It's a rather nice word. Does come with an air of superior arrogance though. Strange to find it associated with cliques and not social classes.

...Unless of course cliques in their most rigid form are merely a subset of social classes.

[Scoops Novel]

It does suggest either a snobby attitude or a limit to how much what your saying matters to you, and he did mention this seemed to be all they talked about.

GET ON MY LEVEL PLEBS

It's a rather nice word. Does come with an air of superior arrogance though. Strange to find it associated with cliques and not social classes.

...Unless of course cliques in their most rigid form are merely a subset of social classes.

Actually, you've convinced me. That sounds like every higher lower to upper class student I've ever heard of. For those of you in school, however, if i could just derail somewhat, is what your group gets up too actually satisfying?