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Old 06-01-2006, 11:36 AM   #534 (permalink)
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My fourteen year old daughter wrote this today as a school assignment. Yay, Catherine!


As a middle school student, I notice trends everyday of my life. Everyone looks like each other. Personally, I don’t get why anyone would want to follow trends, to be just like everyone else in school. School is drowning in sameness and the same thing over and over is boring. It’s like an ocean. How would you feel being surrounded by the same boring water for who-knows-how-long? That’s sameness. It’s a disease and apparently, it’s spreading quicker and quicker. I would rather be immune to it.
There’s so many ways to describe sameness; robots, dolls, etc. But one thing is for sure-I blame pop culture and Paris Hilton.
Everyday I walk through these halls. Every day, I see girls trying to be like the idols they see on TV or hear about online. They show off bodies that half the time should be kept to themselves. All the the time they should be kept to themselves, but don’t try to flaunt what you don’t have. Girls try to be just like Paris Hilton. They dumb themselves down, wear belly shirts, and skirts that would be better off as scarves of some sort. If I have to drown in a sea of sameness, couldn’t it at least be a more interesting sameness? I’d personally not like to enter school doors to an army of knock-off Paris Hiltons.
The guys in school are another story. Either they are all wearing giant shirt and baggy pants or polos.
A part of the Paris Hilton-pop culture trend is brand name-boys’ and girls’. Abercrombie, Hollister and American Eagle are brainwashing my peers, as well as all the other preppy mall stores or overly expensive companies. The way kids adore it is, actually, pretty depressing.
I’m sure they all have their reasons for following the trends. I only wish they were reasons worth hearing about. Apparently, if there was a war between originality and belonging, belonging would crush originality, judging by the majority of the kids.
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