Peer pressure is when you are forced to do something you don’t want to do. You get pressured to drink by your friends otherwise they think you’re a sore loser. People make fun of what you wear. You’re forced to go to malls with your friends and also skipping Classes. You get pressured to cut your hair. And get bugged about sex your culture skin color language. Sometimes your friends pressure you to go to parties. You get swore at by different names.
Get bugged about your knowledge and the grades you get.
-Peer pressured to be in gangs and do the bad Nah
-Get threatened
-People make fun of your name. .
-Pressured by your personality talents and also pressured to get money from your friends:
-We get bugged about our kirpan and turban.
-Sex
-Forced to take drugs
-Forced to lie to your parents.
There is pressure not only from your friends or schoolmates but also from your parents and teachers. And that just about builds a lot of pressure for the teenagers and gets pushed into doing things. They start hating themselves and even try to commit suicide some teenagers even try to run away from home. Then they end up doing drugs stealing and doing other bad things.
A girl was discriminated by her peers all the time. She was forced to drink in front of her class-mates When she got home she got yelled at from her parents because they thought it was her fault. After a week a couple of her school mates grabbed her and threatened her to get in the” car with them. They took her to a park and were told to play a dirty (strip-poker) game which she didn’t agree to: But the schoolmates told her that if she wouldn’t do it they will go tell her parents that she does some dirty work for some guy so she went and played that dirty game. She was confused.
There are some people who just bear it and ‘not say” anything back to them. Some try to explain why they dress like that or why they wear a kirpan. One thing we shouldn’t do is if they discriminate against you then you shouldn’t try to discriminate back because if you do that you will be no different from that person. If you can try to explain to them and not jump at them That way nobody will bug you or pressure you if they understand your reasoning’s. These reasoning are will actually save you from peer pressure alcohol drugs etc.
In order to stop this you should try to explain to them about your culture you should try to stand up for yourself and just say “no” to them.
ByAmrita Baljit Manjit
Jagdeep and Gurjit
Article extracted from this publication >> January 18, 1991
