Reflection+on+American+Conformity

America has such high standards for its citizens. We look around us and are bombarded by how things are "supposed" to be. We see these models of life in adds and media. We are all so worried to be labeled as "different" that we try to fit the mold. Girls try to be unhealthily thin, because this is what they see everyday in adds. Women around the nation are on diets to have the "perfect" figure. The funny thing is, is that most of the nation does not fit this mold, and accepts it as the mold anyway, instead of calling normal what is actually normal. Americans are so worried of not being how they "should" be that they often try to conform to the ways of society. Young girls want to apply makeup because that's what they see older girls wearing. Many people also want fame and fortune because that's what they think is the best thing to have. Young kids look up to these people in the spotlights as role models, and more often than not, these people aren't the best people to be looking up to. If we don't remind ourselves that we can be whoever and whatever we want to be, we are in serious trouble.

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