This Subject Encourages Everyone To Take A Closer Look At Life In America!

Parents and teachers alike tell kids not to yield to peer pressure from other kids in the areas of drugs, cigarettes, alcohol, sex as well as others behaviors or misbehaviors citing; "Don't give in to peer pressure!". Parents fail to understand that peer pressure is often not much more than trendy behavior that our grownup society has pushed to popularity.

We buy what's being sold in the movies with our cash and attendance. We buy what's being pandered in other forms of media as well. We buy our vehicles, our homes, our clothes and even our food based on what we believe that those purchases will do for us or say about us and no one wants to be left out of the popular loop for fear of being judged as odd.

In business we don't stand our ground when our opinions are judged as unpopular. In areas of morality we do what feels good or draws the least amount of ground fire by those around us or those who oppose us.

In business we are often told to be team players. Don't rock the boat! Get with the program! Be one of us! Contribute to the company charity! Be at the company party! Imbibe with us to be friendly! Golf with us! Our goals are your goals! Don't make us unhappy with you! Everyone is doing it! Peer pressure.

Enron Employees Invested In Enron Stock Because Of Peer Pressure & Management Pressure!

Consider This! You can lead a herd cattle into deep water where they will drown. In America, we are often being lead by institutions, advertising and friends into deep debt where many of us will also slowly drown ourselves and our dreams. Peer pressure.

Consider why you buy a vehicle. Really think about it. If we bought just what we needed which is transportation, the proliferation of SUV's, Mini vans and high end vehicles sold on five to six year notes, or leased would not be all that common. But no none wants to drive a vehicle that makes them look unsuccessful. Why? Peer pressure!

How many of us buckle to peer pressure every single day automatically without even a thought? How many of us make fun of people who are doing or living different than us? Say, getting more education or taking a less traveled route in life? Being different.... it's not good! Peer pressure!

By and large American parents have little right to advise others to not give in to peer pressure because of the compromising position that adult lifestyles regularly have taken on rendering those words of wisdom meaningless as well as the worst sort of hypocrisy.

From snobs to drunks to church congregations to business environments to trade organizations to schools and literally every where any one can possibly go on this planet you will find Peer Pressure!

In America, everything that is so us is mostly the result of peer pressure and perhaps all of us should stop yielding or stop preaching to the kids because we are the problem.