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Mark Twain, a famous novelist, in his essay “Corn-pone Opinions” discusses how people tend to conform and value other’s opinion about them more than their own opinion about themselves. This essay was published in 1923—13 years after Twain passed away—and because the readers were able to connect to the matter being discussed, even if it was written more than 13 years ago, this piece made a great impact. However, nowadays—more than a hundred years later, not much has changed, conformity is still extremely common not only within American but in many cultures. In today’s society, people—specially teenagers, follow every trend and “challenge” that becomes popular on the internet and social media. One of the most recent “challenges” on social media

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