Being An Outsider Essay

To begin with, being considered an outsider will hinder one’s participation within their community. By keeping them in the middle or below class, having a great lack of authority given to them, and consistently being discriminated against, which would not only affect their participation but lead to them not even wanting to be within that community anymore. Being an outsider by means of: economic class, ethnicity, race, religion, authority, and parenthood would only keep their participation rates supremely low if not none at all. Firstly, the verbal and physical abuse on the “outsider” group such as the Roma in “Europe’s Unwanted People” and the poor african american’s in the “Other Wes Moore”, did nothing but make them want to have nothing to do with their community and participation involving it. A hand full can state that “they could have just left” or “they caused it upon themselves”, but did they really? Being killed off, attacked, stolen from, …show more content…
Wes’ mother Mary became unable to go to school anymore because of a lack of money and a lack of governmental support that led to her dropping out. Since the greater population of Roma were poor it allowed them to be unable to be a part of their community taking them to a life of crime just in order to survive. Even the locations they live in have a chance to hinder or affect their work, wage, and can increase their crime rates. Stated in the article “In fact, Salone is more a ghetto than a village, and it deprives young men like Elviz of the chance to belong to the normal Italy. It takes three or four hours to get to the center of Rome where they might get a job or job