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Conformity Vs. Individuality: Brainwashing Today's Youth
Conformity vs. Individuality: Brainwashing the Today’s Youth?
What is Conformity? Conformity is the when you exchange your individuality, your uniqueness, and your well being for the ways of society. We as teenagers today part take in this ridiculousness; even though, we say do not. Conformity has officially brainwashed today’s youth, and we no longer have the strength to think for ourselves anymore. Teenagers for some reason feel like they have the need to follow in their peers footsteps, when in reality…. we just need to be individuals! In my opinion, teenagers need to take back their uniqueness, individuality, and be themselves for a change.
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