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"Group Minds"

According to Doris Lessing in the article “Group Minds,” we sometimes alter our beliefs or opinions to fit into a group. Most people seek the need to fit in with certain people or groups so they go along with what their peers are saying and doing. Since we are exposed to group’s everyday, social, political, religious, work or family, we have the tendency to follow along, whether or not we admit it. Lessing also adds that peer pressure is something we have all experienced-something we take for granted, and the hardest thing in the world is standing out against ones group of peers.
First of all, Lessing starts out with saying that individuals are free to make their own choices. But, this is...

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