Blogpost #5: Social Acceptance and Rejection

I think everyone deserves to be accepted. Bisexuals, special children, and many more. All of us want to be accepted. But, in the counterpart of that, I have encountered people who are not accepted by their loved ones, simply because they do not satisfy the expectations and demands of the one that they are longing for. Actually, we are naturally born accepted. It is only when time passes by, people around us make irrational judgement. I am thankful that I am accepted by everyone for who I am. Especially my loved ones. From then on, I have concluded that understanding and love are the components for one to be accepted. Without the other, I think acceptance is going to be hard.

It is much harder when someone thinks that those two components that I have mentioned earlier are both present but it is still hard to be accepted. When I am undergoing this adolescent stage, I have watched movies depicting for strive for family bond. One of them was Hercules. His father, Zeus, sent him down to earth simply because his son is not accepted by the society that he lives on. Hercules was the son of Zeus and the mortal roman named Alcmene. Having their genes combined, they produced an off spring that is half-god, half-mortal. As for that, he is not accepted to be with his father. Both understanding and love is present by the two units but there is still some hindrance. Unable to accept by his father within their society, he is still unable to accept by the society that he lived as a mortal. 

There was one article that I have found entitled, A little acceptance goes along the way by C. Nathan Dewall, Jean M. Twenge, Brad Brushman, Charles Im, and Kipling Willams in the site, 'Sage Journals'. According to the authors, "Social rejection hurts, causing aggression even against innocent people." This statement says it all. Social rejection does hurt a lot. It is deprived from that statement that social aggression results to tragic endings for those who are not accepted. But the authors have a theory called 'social impact theory' wherein they predicted that social aggression will decrease as power function of the number of people accepting the participants. 

There is this another statement stated by Nathan DeWall about coping up with rejection and all.  “We should assume that everyone is going to experience rejection on a semi-regular basis throughout their life,” he stated. We all know that we will encounter rejection either we like it or not. We can not expect that people around us are nice all the time so for that statement, the best way to overcome rejection is to seek the hands of those people who are ready to accept us. 

In the Disney movie, Hercules. His case was the same. Luckily, he did not went to rampaging the whole city. Self impact theory has been proved once Hercules didn't gave up in earning the trust of the people that he can protect their city. 

The same goes with other superhumans having unnatural capabilities. Others might think you are weird, but be the weirdest creature that ever lived and be proud. Seek out others that understands you and love you for who you are. One day, everyone will appreciate of what you can do. Just they have to make sure that it will not harm others.