Peer Pressure
Peer Pressure (including : gangs)
The desire to fit in
is totally natural and human. It gives us social reassurance to know we are liked
or have a level of value or respect
in a group. But sometimes it can be the reason for embarking on a risky life style though, or make it hard to get on with your own interests, or express yourself the way you would like.
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Avoiding getting too drawn into peer pressure might just be about asserting your own self more - forming a more individual concept of who you are. You should still be able to be friends with people when you do that - or else, presumably, they weren't really your friends. So it could be good to just get the nerve to experiment and challenge some expectations. And see how people react. As often as not, they would like and respect you more, once they get used to the change.
Some group bonding is healthy
and it's only
a problem if you end up not
able to say or do the things you need to for you.
It's probably about getting that happy mix between sharing
your styles with others and having your own
style. If you can do both those things together
reasonably ok, chances are, you're in a good
frame of mind for life.
The Hip-Hop genre
talks a lot of truth about the realities - conscious
and golden age
gives a lot of the more thoughtful deeper meanings which might be of help. And can, 4 sure, do your own thing ... but hold head up high in doing so.
Music style ideas for Peer Pressure
Hip-Hop (a few conscious style and golden-age tracks)