Everyone's an elitist

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<p>I’ve come to this realization that a lot of people fit into these groups… and I was just wondering which you fall into. </p>

<p>I guess I define an elitist as someone thinks their group’s beliefs are basically right and other people are just ignorant… even if they don’t voice this opinion.</p>

<p>The hardworkers:
By hardworking, I don’t mean the people who will do anything for extra credit or an a. I mean people who seriously do everything the right way and in the end get the grade. You know the people who read the books, take the notes, find a genuine interest in what they are learning, and like to help others understand. In life they do everything 100%… you know the type. You just want to ask them why… They scold others for being lazy or impractical. </p>

<p>The ambitious:
I’m not saying people in the other groups are not, but this group’s driving force is ambition. They might seem like a hardworker, but inside it is to succeed. These are the people who will do work very hard so they can get a nice teacher rec, but once they find out the teacher’s leaving they stop. However, this is how you get far in the business world. These are the people who scold others for not being business savvy.</p>

<p>The lazy but claim to be creative or insightful:
These people scold the hardworkers for not having greater thoughts about life an existence that they always think about the present and the tangible. I have a special place in my heart for these people because my brother is one of them. He’s experimented a little and suddenly I know nothing about the real world because I don’t see it through his enhanced eyes. He listens to Jimi Hendrix, Pink Floyd and Led Zepplin, who are gods to him. I know their music is progressive and even revolutionary, but who is to say that we cannot reach this greatness without the altered perceptions. I guess my brother and I will have to agree to disagree. He isn’t one of those people that just becomes awestruck or influenced… he actually researches everything and fully understands everything he does. I admire him for that, but … I know this sounds trite… but if he would only guide this passion into something useful in life. These people are into government conspiracies(sp?), peace, etc.He calls me ignorant of what life really is about and I call him lazy and afraid to face the real world… </p>

<p>one last group… </p>

<p>the fake lazy people claiming to be creative and insightful:
I’m sorry I’m going to be stereotyping here so argue at your leisure… these are the “emo” people. They listen to this music that supposedly is insightful. I must admit I’ve never seen anything in our time that compares to pink floyd etc. I’m not part of this group so I guess I wouldn’t know. These people are actually ambitious but their ambition is to be unlike everyone else. </p>

<p>What a trippy world we live in. I guess I was kind of easy on the hardworkers because I think that’s where I fit in. I genuinely take interest in almost anything I study. I don’t really like to take credit for anything… I don’t really know why. I can’t present things well… honestly I don’t make an effort on presentation because I believe the content can speak for itself… but I understand that I will do pretty badly in the real world because of this. </p>

<p>Tralfamadorian: I’m a hardworker. I like to read dystopian novels and keep all my insights to myself. My english teachers love me but my classmates never really know why because I never say anything in class but my papers speak for themselves. My sats are far from perfect but my gpa is not. I’m having trouble expressing myself on my college apps because… I just don’t know how.</p>

<p>I know people probably won’t admit what groups they fit into… but it’d be nice if you could.</p>

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<p>Ah…ambition</p>

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<p>Well, I dont work hard in school, and my gpa shows that. I’m a smart kid, but I just really never tried until junior year. I did ‘ok’. I care somewhat about prestige, especially here, in an area surrounded by Penn, Haverford, Bryn Mawr, Nova, etc, its nice to say I go to a good school. But in the same sense, i’m intelligent enough to pick a school <em>I</em> like based on different qualities, not on perception or silly rankings.</p>

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<p>I think I am in ambitious hardworker. I have learned to be more ambitious (as you describe it) as I have become more experienced in the real world. I got put in the role of work horse too many times.</p>

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<p>ambitious and proud of it</p>

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<p>heh I should’ve known the latter two would never come to this site. Ah well…</p>

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<p>I guess that makes me the creative-but-lazy type? I don’t know. </p>

<p>I usually think people mean ambitious in the sense of being after prestige and money - they want to go to the prestigious school so they can get the prestigious, high-paying career and only then will they consider themselves successful. The problem comes in when you try to define “success”. These people tend to think their version of success is everyone’s version of success, and if other people aren’t striving towards success they aren’t ambitious and if they aren’t ambitious then they’re lazy.</p>

<p>I chose my future career based on what I’d like to spend the majority of my weekdays doing, not what will make the most money or raise the most eyebrows when someone asks me what I do for a living. I’m not even entirely sure what I’ll be doing in 10 years but it’ll be in some kind of creative field. My ambition, I guess you could say, is to not have to wake up every morning and dread going to work. In that sense, I work towards my goals in the same way and to the same degree that the people in the ‘ambitious’ group do; we just happen to have different goals. I don’t see any reason why I should be considered “lazy” for this.</p>

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<p>What about the hardworkers who pretend to be lazy?</p>

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<p>Hopelessly hardworker here, just because you haven’t had a full one in the responses. I’ve been asked “why,” before, haha, and it’s always a baffling experience. Nice username.</p>

<p>Hardworkers who pretend to be lazy are still hardworkers; they just pull the latter for style.</p>

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<p>I don’t feel like I fit into any of those.</p>

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<p>^ elaborate, please.</p>

<p>I’d have to say those “lazy” hardworkers are just the ambitious in hiding… perhaps they do this for style to succeed in life.</p>