Exclusion Of An Out-Class

Although I have always been grateful towards the fact I live in a country where I have never faced extreme feelings of exclusion due to my values and beliefs, I have still been treated as a member of an outgroup many times throughout my life. As someone who was raised to hold quite progressive values, living in Alberta has brought upon many instances where I felt as though I were viewed in a negative light, pushed into the outgroup. My roommates in Alberta were very conservative, often discussing and agreeing on topics I felt very different about. I would feel very uncomfortable or awkward at the supper table when they would have political discussions, and by the end of the year, I had stopped going out with them completely. This made for