Most people can agree that “Group Pressure” can influence members to do stuff that they normally wouldn’t support themselves. Peer pressure is similar to group pressure because when you have a crowd around you forcing you to do something, most cases you would do it. This usually happens when your friends are drinking at a party and they force you to try some or when they try to offer you to smoke with them. In group pressure, it makes you feel like you have more confidence or at least make you feel like you are obligated to do it since everyone is watching you. For example, I was in a club meeting and they were electing people for president, treasurer, secretary, public relations, and etc. As it was coming to the end, my ex-president elected me to become treasurer in which I didn’t want to do. Since I was in front of a huge crowd I decided to take the position and I became treasurer. As a result, it shows that group pressure does influence a lot of people to do things they normally wouldn’t support themselves.
How is that treasure position? Do you regret that you feel under peer pressure and accepted the position? I think that it is a good thing that you fell under peer pressure in this situation because your ex president was just helping you become a leader. A lot of time people fall under peer pressure in a negative way. For example, I know a lot of my friends smoke weed now because there friends got them into it. They were pressured to fit in by smoking with them. I never got it. I never got into smoking. It seems so stupid to me. I guess I see it different because no one has ever peer pressured me into doing it. I hope you like the treasure position. :)
ReplyDeleteI agree with you that group pressure is similar to peer pressure. This happens a lot as we were growing up, and even more so now that we are in college. Before college, I told myself I would not drink until I turned twenty-one. I stuck it out for the Fall semester of Freshmen year, turning down drinks when they were offered to me. Then the Spring semester rolled around, and my friends really got into partying and drinking. One of them handed me a drink at a party and told me to drink with him, since it was his birthday. Everyone was watching and telling me how I couldn’t deny the birthday boy’s request. So of course, I drank it because I didn’t want people to look down on me. Group pressure sucks.
ReplyDeleteGroup pressure is something that we as young adults face a lot of the time. Like you said, partying is one of the many places we are pressured in a group. Group pressure can have many negative outcomes and may even be harmful to those in the group but some group decisions can also be beneficial. Your example is one that might have become beneficial.. depending on if you actually like being treasurer. Group pressure is just something we all have to deal with, the outcomes might even help us realize something about ourselves we did not already know.
ReplyDeleteI have a very good example of group pressure. I was drinking with some of my friends and they told me I wouldn’t be able to chug the drink better than the guys…. BIG MISTAKE!! I shouldn’t have let myself be affected by the group’s pressures. I mean, they were my friends, right?! Well just because they were my friends, doesn’t mean they necessarily had my best interest in their minds. I ended up totaling my car, ruining my family’s trust in me, and having no memory of the rest of the night. I should have known myself better than to give into peer pressure. I definitely learned my lesson and I am a lot more independent now and definitely do not easily give into peer pressure.
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