I've sometimes wondered how I would have turned out if I had gone to a typical American highschool - my HS experience was so different I have trouble relating t

I've sometimes wondered how I would have turned out if I had gone to a typical American highschool - my HS experience was so different I have trouble relating to this essay, tv shows with high schools etc. My high school was uber-immigrant (I'd estimate about 5-10% of the kids were born in Canada, everyone else being a first-gen immigrant), and groups were divided primarily by grade, then by ethnicity, religion and regionality, then by activity (drama, music, sport, math etc) so it was almost impossible to form cliques, judge cross-group popularity etc. But it wasn't that bad either, it was actually pretty easy to move within groups - got to know people through playing music, through volleyball, hanging out with the other eastern europeans etc.