We are living in a time now when media is ever so more influential. I mean, being subjected to media constantly, we more or less expose our mind and meditate on these media.
And due to the media, there is a evolving role of cultural identity. How people feel that they need to become a known social archtype persona inorder to fit in and become "someone". This means, they will act a role and end up believing they are that role, such as one of the character from Sex in the City, Desperate Housewives, celebrity wannabes, kawaii girls, rock-hiphop and such. To act and molding their own inner character and emotions into that sort of type of social Persona. In other words, they are imitating their idol in a emotion and subconscious level, which I find extremely dangerous and manipulative for oneself. If a person continue to act, they will lose themselves, they will become paranoid and forget to be natural, be themselves, act how they honestly feel without being influence or manipulate by other social persona.
I think it is time for many of us to start evaluating ourselves, and see if we are being honest or just subconsciously following a icon because of insecurity of being no body. Stop labelling yourself, and start being natural and not paranoid!
Of course, there is always a certain level of persona we have to put up once we are dealing in society, but there is an extend which it becomes an obsession and a self manipulative lie to oneself.
I think this is a major topics which needs to be investigated properly, since a lot of people I know are victims of this psychological problem.
The best thing is to be our self.
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