Stereotypes: The Importance Of Belonging In Life

Belonging is important to have in your life. It has an impact on how you work and play. Belonging has a different meaning for everyone, it is commonly understood to mean being accepted by people and to feel included with those people. If you didn’t have to belong, you wouldn’t feel included and many people become depressed. Belonging is to be accepted by people and to feel included in communities, it is essential for functioning to your full potential.

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Belonging is to be connected to a community and an environment. When people get taken away from their community and homeland, you feel sick. In the rabbit-proof fence, when the white talked to Molly saying, “You’ll feel quite at home”, Molly felt sick, sad and angry. They told her to forget her culture and language, forcing her to be a white person even though she’s not. Aboriginals have been fighting away the white people

Research has proven this to be right. Research shows that even a single instance of exclusion can undermine well-being, IQ test performance, and self-control. Studies have demonstrated that a sense of social belonging can affect motivation and continued persistence, even on impossible tasks, which means that when you do not belong, you will not be motivated to do the hard task or even the easy task and less likely to hang in there in the face of an obstacle.In kids matter article it says, a sense of belonging has been shown to improve children’s ability to learn and increase their skills in developing relationships.”As she grew older, Molly often wished that she didn’t have light skin and coloured her skin black”, because she thought that is how to belong as all the other kids around her had that same skin colour. When she had that skin colour loved life and excelled because all the kids thought she was like them. Belonging is important to excel in life as you are enjoying what you are doing and you will be