After being around certain people, is it normal for a person to start acting like them?
After being around certain people, is it normal for a person to start acting like them without being aware of it
I reflect my environment. I am more like the people I didn't want to be.
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These people are at my work place. There is one of me and many of them. I can not avoid them. I am becoming the person I always feared to be.
2007-04-12 06:22:02 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Other - Cultures & Groups
IT's CONTAGIOUS!!! I'm a weak person these days. NO!!!!!!!!!!
2007-04-12 06:29:40 · update #1
In some ways, yes. I used to hang out with a friend almost everyday who had a lisp. When talking to her, I found myself beginning to lisp occasionally. It happens to people all the time when they hang around people with accents, a lot of time it's the Southern accent which seems to get contagious. It's strange. As for actual 'actions', that's a bit different. If you are easily influenced by peer pressure, it can happen. I know I have a drinking problem and if I hang out with a bunch of drunks I tend to drink way more than I want to. BUT, I do know that if I was hanging out with a murderer, I wouldn't suddenly start murdering people too. My old boss had a very crude sense of humor and he cursed ALL the time. Being around him, I found myself cursing more often and becoming a bit of a nastier person. I had to put some distance between us.
Sometimes I think it's a subconscious coping mechanism. It can make uncomfortable situations easier to deal with even though the best thing to do is get out of the situation sometimes. You act like the people you are around so that they will feel more comfortable with you and find you less of a threat. If they seem comfortable around you, you then feel more comfortable because you 'fit in'. Like some sort of natural instinct thing...
2007-04-12 06:36:30 · answer #1 · answered by Pico 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
sure, you do take on the features of the gang. it rather is spoke of as 'the herd mentality' and is a survival mechanism to keep away from being 'the unusual guy out' and expelled. terrific desires
2016-10-02 21:15:43 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is vary hard not to change. I was in Tennessee for 9 years. When I came home to NY they said I had an accent. I didn,t even realize it.
2007-04-12 06:29:17 · answer #3 · answered by Robert S 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
For people who don't have minds of their own (80% of the world's population), yes that is normal.
2007-04-12 06:26:08 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
It's probably normal...and way of surviving in this world...it does not mean that "you" have changed...its just the way you are percieved....smart people fit in everywhere!!!!*
2007-04-12 06:26:30 · answer #5 · answered by INC0GNIT0 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Certain people??? Blacks maybe?? Are you scared to say it? Weak..........
Then why are you in the enviroment? Get out of it!
Sounds like you are a weak individual like Kram it Kramden!
2007-04-12 06:29:38 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
No, unless you are a mindless idiot.
2007-04-12 06:25:46 · answer #7 · answered by Bigapples.CC 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
i am rich and everybody wants to be me. so no, i cant relate to your question, but i do notice that when people are around me, they want to be more like me sooo.....maybe there is some truth to that. d*mn I am sexy!! life is great, isnt it?
2007-04-12 06:29:15 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 5⤋
It does happen...... stick yo your guns and be who you want to be.........
2007-04-12 06:26:29 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
no, if i was near blacks i wouldnt start eating watermelon and commiting crimes
2007-04-12 06:24:50 · answer #10 · answered by Ralph Kramden 1 · 0⤊ 8⤋