Q3 Blog 1 inductive

People who start fights but do not finish them or actually carry them out are posers. For example, my neighbor inMexico, along with his friends, went to pick a fight with a group of guys from the nearby neighborhood. However,  they ended up running back home to "safety." They did so as soon as the first sign of a real physical fight appeared, making them posers. Anybody else who acts like this, in any situation, is a poser as well. A poser, according to Urbandictionary.com is one who pretends to  be someone or something they are not through many characteristics. These characteristics may include how they dress, speak, think and act. With the previous example, my neighbor and his friends were pretending to be "hard" by dressing like gangsters, talking in a way that would provoke a fight, and by acting like they wanted to fight, and even looking for and initiating one. Yet, when they actually got what they were "looking" for, they chickened out. This backing out makes him and his friends posers, because  they tried to pose as gangsters, when they really are not. The reason for this is most likely the desire and peer pressure to fit in and appear "tough." Furthermore, my neighbor also happens to be high school age.This age tends to be the age where people try to fit in with certain groups the most. And so, it can be induced that teenagers who are posers are doing so to fit in with a certain group of people that they want to get respect from. Without respect, people are left out, made fun of, or both, but posing as something you're not defeats the whole purpose because if someone is found out, they will be left out and made fun of anyway. That is what usually happens when you "talk the talk but don't walk the walk." what I mean to say is that there are many different parts to being something. Posers do not meet all of the components. Genuinely being part of a certain group means dressing the part, having the mentality of that group, speaking the colloquial language and acting on those thoughts. Posers, however, may dress, speak and pretend to act like genuine members of a group, but they lack the mentality and actual actions, making them fake. Instead of getting the approval they seek, they get the distance they wanted to avoid.