Blog #5: Breaking Free of Traditions

It can be hard to break free from a cultural heritage, at least in my opinion. It can be hard because since its something that a person's family, friends, or even community does they are faced with it often. When they are placed in the position where that heritage is redundant its hard to try to break free of what they think is normal and right. Society tries to keep us in line by telling us who we should be friends with, who not to be friends with, what to wear, what to eat, how much to eat, the "right" model weight or else no one will love us and a million other things. Society has gotten under the skin that we forget that we are all individuals with our own minds and we can in fact decide what we believe is right and wrong. For example, we see bullying happening in schools very often and yes, society tells us that it is wrong but another part of society seems to think its okay because of what they think to be a justified reasons. We could as individuals choose to see that this is not what we need, what we need to do is step up and fight back against it but not in the physical way. If more people would stand up and argue that bullying was wrong and report it we could be more open as to who we see as friends. More and more television is giving us the idea for women of what the "dream girl" looks like and nine times out of ten it is a model who is a size zero and roughly about that size. If we weren't so closed minded we could exactly see what truly matters, the inner beauty. But we struggle to see that and in turn make a negative impact. Some people break free by standing out and voicing their different opinions. They try to get others to see that there are other options out there if they just opened their minds to new things. I don't think there is a great deal of disregarding societal norms because it shows that you actually care about something and are passionate about it being known to others.