Peer group...

My Group...

Actually, I don´t really like "belonging" to groups...What I have are friends, and I don´t know if they could be considered "Peer Group", because these friends don´t make between them and me, all together, a group.

Some of them or most of them, don´t know each other personally. They know they are my friends, because 
I´ve told some stories about them, and so they know they are, but they belong to other groups...

I´ve good friends from different ways of life, with a wide different nationality, with different ages, different believes, different likes... and what I have with them are basically an individual relation, but not a group relation.

That, doesn´t mean that I didn´t participate in group activities, of course I do group activities, and of course, I know I live in Society.

I´ve done during four years theather, or I sing since long in Choirs, and of course, I found with people of these groups things in common. Should I consider them, a Peer Group?

Why do I say, I don´t like belongin to groups? Because although, they can help for a socialization, they can also be an obstacle for freedom, and in groups, people play a role in a stronger way than as an individual person.

What I would say about the people I know, and that I consider them my friends, have in common that are people with good values such as Respect, Sensitivity and they are nice reliable people.

People from the choir´s world, some of them good friends of mine, we have in common the love for the Music for example, not only, I´d say the love for doing things that enrich us, we are people with inquietudes.

Social Control in Peer Group, I insist I don´t feel it, neather in this moral way you propose, because in what I believe is overall in the freedom of the person and in the freedom of their decisions.

To act in your private life or in your private decisions, under the social control for me is not having the control of your life and I always have felt, that I´take my life´s charge and the others should do the same.

Acting under the pressure about what people think, for me shows an immaturity, that it´s quite typical of societies that have not reach the adulthood. Unfortunately ours, has not reach this adulthood I mean, and I don´t know if someday we will reach it, because this way of acting is inside our culture.

I´m always meaning or speaking about social control in the peer group and not about social control in other aspects in the society, which I agree not only that exists but also it´s necessary.

Report from another Planet!

I´m Osy and I´m surprised about how human beings teach other human beings!

They organize themselves in groups...Kids with the same ages go to special buildings, where there are adults who take care of them.
Sometimes the kids play together outside these buildings, but they are alwalys under the responsability of an adult!
These special persons are called teachers and they receive this name, because they teach the subject they are in charge of.
As the children get older, they have also more and different teachers, and more and difficult subjects!

The smell inside these buildings, that they call schools, is a little weird!

Well, the buildings receive different names depends on the ages of the pupils they admit: Kindergartens for  little babies; Schools, High Schools and Universities!

My God! All your life inside artificial edifications! And all your life belonging to groups!

Without going to these places you can not be anything in this Society!
You must go to the school because it´s obligatory! You learn there, what will be necessary to find a job and as you have more studies, you have better chances to find a better job, that´s what they have explained to me!
They speak a common lenguage, and they are taught in this lenguage, but sometimes, they learn another foreing lenguage, but that lenguage is not ours!

What else? some little children, carry an enormous heavy thing on their backs, they call them rucksacks or backpacks, but beleive me, they are really heavy! I don´t understand, why they must carry everyday such a big thing!

They take notes in a paper, listen to the teacher, sometimes they read things from a book.
So they communicate through different ways!
A book is an object that contains fotos and letters, and they use this kind of thing to learn!

There are also inside these schools, a place where you can take some food or drink and they call them dining halls or canteens, it depends on if they are inside the school, or inside the university.

In the next tryp to the earth, I will take some more different notes to learn more about the habits of these extrange people!

Kind Regards, Osy.