Social Bubble Research Paper

I know far too well the dangers of being surrounded by people who agree with me. In general, my life is based within one small bubble, which is my school. My current high school is incredibly small with only about 490 students in both middle and upper school. My graduating class is one of the largest in recent years and we only have around 69 people. My school has a reputation for being more “liberal” than the other private schools in the city. The majority of people at my school don't have strong religious beliefs and have left-leaning political views, including me. I’ve lived in this bubble for seven years, and on many occasions, I have faced the consequences of living in a community full of people who agree with my views. The most obvious …show more content…
I knew maybe three or four people who openly supported Trump, and those people were essentially vilified at my school. Of course, I would see numbers on the news and I could see crowds of zealous supporters in footage of his rallies, but it was never part of my actual reality. That inability to reconcile the greater world reality with the one I can observe directly is one of the main consequences of my social bubble. Looking back, there were times when I acted completely hypocritical. It disturbed me that there were people who supported Trumps idea’s and agreed with his statements, even though so many were literally proven lies, and I would look down on them because they couldn't see past their own tiny microcosm of the world. Yet I have done the exact same thing. Especially as a white person going to a school filled with mostly other white people I’d never been forced to face that kind of unmistakable racism that a person of color has to face in their lives. The kind that would have reminded me that so many people in America are still incredibly racist and full of