Conformity Vs. Individuality: Brainwashing Today's Youth

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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 partake 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 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.

When it comes to the topic of conformity, most of us will readily agree that we have our know way of thinking for

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