Rebel Vs Outsider
See also: Outcast (person), Social rejection, and MarginalizationA rebel is distinguished from an outsider. An outsider is one who is excluded from a group whereas a rebel goes against it. Also, a rebel's potential to overthrow the leadership is recognized and substantial, unless the rebellion is crushed, whereas an outsider has been marginalized and is considered to be degenerate.
Traditionally the clothing of social outsiders and rebel has been characterized by stripes, like in the cases of prostitutes in the Middle Age, and of prisoners. Among the Pueblo Indians, some taboo-breaking ritual clowns paint their bodies in black and white stripes, to represent a skeleton.
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“The young always have the same problem—how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.”
—Quentin Crisp (b. 1908)