Soleil Gott
10/18/12
ENC1101; Midterm Exam
Professor Prapopoulos Society can influence individual human behavior in many different ways.
The influence possibly can be greater if the individual is week minded and not strong from within. The way society is can also influence the way someone becomes. Affirmative Action is something that is common in society today and is recognized a lot by others. “Affirmative action refers to policies that take factors including "race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, or national origin into consideration in order to benefit an underrepresented group "in areas of employment, education, and business", usually justified as countering the effects of a history of discrimination.”-Tori Sims. In the reading
“Affirmative Action: The Price of Preference”, the writer talks about how being a black male affected him. It not only caused him a great difficulty of getting into college, but his children as well. Society negatively affects people so much they just want to escape from it all. The human mind is very much affected by other minds. We tend to think what others think; and create along the lines others have created. Individuality is to break out of this mode; to think differently and manifest what has not existed before. In fact, individuality is to think and create something out of nothing, which may be the process of creation itself.
Within time, society is causing people to become more and more like each other. The way they dress, the music people listen to, even the people we look up to. Most children are all brought up the same way. At a young age, your taught how to speak correctly, proper manners, religion, how to behave and obey others and their parents and school knowledge. Once you get older, every kid want the coolest and most popular things out there. Something that is also seen throughout society is automatically judging someone due to their race. People think that just because their a certain color or from a certain country that there sneaky and suspicious. For example, I’ve asked different people if they were walking down the street alone, would they be more scared of a black man walking by them or a white man. All of them said a black man. Racial profiling has been in our society since I can remember and is something that will be there for a long time. In society today, Media is a big influencer among teens these days. For example, Girls are becoming weight conscious as young as 8 years old, 80% of 9 year olds are on diets, Eating disorders have grown 400% since 1970, and In a recent survey by Teen People magazine, 27% of the girls felt that the media pressures them to have a perfect body. The same things happen with teens and early sex. Three out of four teens say ‘TV shows and movies make it seem normal for teenagers to have sex. Young teens (ages 13-15) rank entertainment media as the top source of information about sexuality and sexual health Four out of ten teenagers say they have gotten ideas for how to talk to their boyfriends and girlfriends about sexual issues from the entertainment media. Both women and men both think that they have to dress a certain way. They look up to their role models and want to be just like them. I realized a lot in high school that every girl and guy dressed like one another. It’s very hard to find originality anymore. The ones that actually dress and act different are people that we consider “weird”. Boys look up to their favorite rappers or sports player and girls look up to their favorite artist. Within time it’s getting worse and worse. Society is something that’s going to be influenced by people for a lifetime.
Wither it’s a good thing or bad thing, it’s going to happen. Try your best to be original and not like everyone else. The more you stand out, the better.