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= Line of inquiry 1: How ‍the need to be popular makes people compete between each other? =

= MEDIA: =

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=== Kids most of the times think that they need to be popular because it shows the way they are, pathetic or not, many kids get depress because it is too important for them, sometimes they make excuses for themselves saying that being popular it also affects your grades, because you can be with the people you like, like the people that do good at school, well sometimes it is true but they use that excuse to tell their parents when they get bad grades, parents obiously would ask their kids why does other kids exclude you from groups, and there is when kids see the oportunity to atack, to manipulate or to bombardete their parents, because every parent of the world, well at least of this school will do anything for doing their kids happy so they buy them all what they want. ===

Franchesca Cobo 01/06/12
=== Many kids think that gadgets/material things/objects will help them to be popular, but thats not true, what they and their parents are doing is affecting the child in a bad way, because when they start buying so many thing (COOL STUFF) and they see that the results arent how they expected they get mad and start suffering. === IF SOMEONE THAT HAS BEEN EXCLUDED AND IS READING THIS RIGHT NOW, DONT FEAL BAD, MAYBE YOU ARE BETTER THAN DOES "POPULAR" KIDS IN YOUR CLASS, MAYBE THEY ARE JUST POPULAR BECAUSE THEY ARE MORE MATTURE, OR BECAUSE THEY FEAL PREATIER AND BETTER THAN YOU, THAT IS NOT TRUE, ( JUST HAVE PERSONALITY AND GET GOOD GRADES WHILE YOU ARE BEING EXCLUDED, OR YOU MAY TELL THAT PERSON WHO IS EXCUDING YOU THAT YOU FEAL BAD WHEN THAT HAPPEN AND HE OR SHE WILL NOT WANT TO BE IN YOUR PLACE )

= Valentina Corzo 17/05/2012 = ===Kids are scared of BEING LONELEY AND THEY FEEL THAT THE ONLY WAY TO BE ACCEPTED IN GROUPS AND BEING ACCEPTED BY OTHERS IS BY LOSING THEIR PERSONALITIES AND BUYING THINGS THAT OTHER KIDS HAVE IN THE GROUP BUT THEY ACTUALLY DO NOT NEED. When kids see the example of their peers they think that the only way for them to like him or her is to be similar to them so they feel obligated to buy and buy and buy each time somebody in the group gets something and actually this is not good because they need to understand that if they want to be accepted by somebody they should not change but kids are allways so scared about what the other people think of them so they decide to buy things and the they think that other people feel they can buy things and have money becouse this as actually a way wich kids use to cover their insecurities and low self-steam.===

Kids not only make this for popularity but also to have friends and being included, kids want to have someone to talk to, some one to play with, feel accepted,share experiences with somebody etc.
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= INTERVIEWS: =

Olga Mogollon
They can do different things such as:
 * ===attac:===

By objects that they dont need
and start being more popular By being a bad student, or running away not being with your friend start hitting people saying bad words They start desconsentrating because they are woried of what they are going to do when they
 * ===or defend===

Sofia Guevara 08/06/2012 well olga mogollon told us that they did it not only for being popular but it is also because the reptailian brain sends you mesages to do that because all what the reptailian brain does is because all that this brain wants is: popularity, being someone in a social group and to be in the top of the hierarchy. But it is also the mamal brain because when you have something and then someone tells you that you have a very beautifull toy then you feel really nice and you feel pleasure, so you will like to do it againg and buy and buy more stuff to feel pleasure

= Prior Knowledge =

Franchesca Cobo 01/06/12
=== Many kids think that gadgets/material things/objects will help them to be popular, but thats not true, what they and their parents are doing is affecting the child in a bad way, because when they start buying so many thing (COOL STUFF) and they see that the results arent how they expected they get mad and start suffering. === IF SOMEONE THAT HAS BEEN EXCLUDED AND IS READING THIS RIGHT NOW, DONT FEAL BAD, MAYBE YOU ARE BETTER THAN DOES "POPULAR" KIDS IN YOUR CLASS, MAYBE THEY ARE JUST POPULAR BECAUSE THEY ARE MORE MATTURE, OR BECAUSE THEY FEAL PREATIER AND BETTER THAN YOU, THAT IS NOT TRUE, ( JUST HAVE PERSONALITY AND GET GOOD GRADES WHILE YOU ARE BEING EXCLUDED, OR YOU MAY TELL THAT PERSON WHO IS EXCUDING YOU THAT YOU FEAL BAD WHEN THAT HAPPEN AND HE OR SHE WILL NOT WANT TO BE IN YOUR PLACE )

= SURVEYS: =

= Maria Jose Soto 28/05/12 =

=== Because some people have the feeling that they are going always to be judged and they think that the "populars" are always the ones that have the correct judgement so they think they have to become popular to not be judged. they start competing with the populars, they start buying the things the popular kid has and they also try to be like the populars are, and they also push their friends back; their real freinds and start competing with them also, they think that by fighting with their friends, people's going to crush on them. ===

= OBSERVATION AND EXPERIENCE: =