"The All-American Slurp" and "S.O.R Losers" Comparison

In the two stories "The All-American Slurp" and "S.O.R Losers both kids are totally opposite. In the story "The All-American Slurp" the narrator cares very much of how different she is from other people. She came from China and she tries her best to act like Americans in America. Except in the story "S.O.R Losers" the kids in the story don't care what other people think. Everyone is pushing them to win the last game in the soccer team and the kids don't care if  they win or lose. They think that since the other people lost all the other games who cares if they lose. So they didn't care about what the other people said. In my opinion I think it is better not to think of what other people say. Just do it in your own way. Except in this situation both kids in these stories are wrong. First of all you shouldn't think about what other people say like the narrator of the story "The All-American Slurp" did. You should think of what you think is best unless it is wrong and you know it. Second of all in the story  "S.O.R Losers" actually kind of did think of what other people do. Since they thought losing was no big deal because everyone else lost it means that they thought about what other people did. In the end you can tell that both kids in both stories thought about what other people did and said.