Divergents and reality

A few months ago I watched the movie Divergent and recently I've been thinking about it. In the movie there are five factions: Amity, Abnegation, Dauntless, Candor and Erudite. These factions each value one virtue: peace, selflessness, bravery, honesty and intelligence. They are expected to act a certain way and fulfil certain roles. At 16 each teen takes a test which tells them which faction they fit into. They then have the choice of which faction they would like to join. Forever. However if they don't pass the initiation into that faction they are left factionless. Outcasts. The test is meant to determine which faction they belong to but for some it doesn't work. Because some, like Tris, can't be narrowed down to one trait. Divergent.

But being Divergent isn't seen as a good thing. People are threatened by Divergents and see them as dangerous. Why? They can't be controlled, can't be labeled or shoved into a pre-determined box that makes them easy to manage.

I know there are debates on whether the faction system could actually be introduced into reality and if the movie takes it a bit too far to be realistic, yet it does happen now, though in a less extreme way. Even now people are labeled and put into boxes and told what they are like and how they are expected to act just because of a part of them. People are too complex for that. Sure you may be an "arty person" but that doesn't mean you aren't a "history person". People do have different traits and have different weaknesses and strengths but you can't put them into a "faction". Just because they have a certain characteristic doesn't mean that you can define them by it. I am a dancer. I take great delight in the fact that I have done many years of ballet yet I love action movies and want to do things like paintball and abseiling. Most people don't expect that and I like that I am different in part to what they would expect. Labels don't define you. They may explain a part of you, an interest or an achievement but they don't explain you. You're made up of so many more characteristics, traits, interests and quirks than that and that makes you a very unique person.