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=America's Youth=

America's youth today, in my opinion, is focused on a type of negative influence of pop culture. We have too many radio stations, tv shows, failed icons plaguing our youth with false ideas. What I have come to realize is that we do not embrace what our founding fathers have given us, **free speech**. We are not embracing the essence of our youth, which is to point out problems we may see in our community and bring attention to them. Instead of being independent in our choices in life, we are letting our pop culture tell us what we should like, instead of what we choose to like. One theme that parallels different time periods of this country is greed and the acquisition of wealth. This can be seen in Gatsby and this can be seen in the rap culture today. The "bling" was different, but in the end gastby was all about the "bling". We are capable of making great changes in our world today, we just need to set our minds to it, ignoring the majority of idea destroying pop culture as we go through out lives.


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