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Personal Ranting

“You’re not really Irish, are you?”

That’s usually the question that is asked when I tell someone I’m from Ireland. Maybe I should expect it , I mean I don’t have the typical look you would associate with an Irish person. My mother was from Africa and moved to Ireland, I was born here and yet people still question me on that fact. Is it wrong for me to proudly be Irish as I am proudly African? This bothers me it is as if your saying “you’re not Irish, you’re black!” It is my country as it is yours, Thank you!

(Sorry for ranting ✌)

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Is the Social media affecting how we view ourselves?

I don’t think this is a very much discussed topic. And as a welcome to my new blog I would like to address this issue so… Lettuce talk.

In today’s society let’s face it we are all obsessed with technology, laptops, iPad etc. and that is fine. Social media is a whole new virtual world if not reality but what is doing to our self confidence? Well it isn’t doing a very good thing in fact I’ve been doing some research and this is what I found.

Out of 298 users on the Internet 50 percent of them said that their self confidence has actually been lowered. Meaning that their self esteem is actually being damaged. Why? You ask, well it’s simple to answer. Well all of those fantastic filter drenched photos are just snapshots of reality, but of course since they’ve been drizzled in filters they look much nicer than what we actually see and it makes that person’s life look more exciting or adventurous. This now leads to we, sit behind the screen and look at this, feel like our lives are plain and boring.

We then start to try and change our looks and appearance and then feel like ‘’I am not changing enough” then try to compare our self to them and when we see that we can’t compare ourselves to the because their beauty surpasses ours that causes self esteem issues. So not only is our view of what beauty standards should look like being fueled by the media but also the social media, this makes it harder for girls and boy to really be proud in themselves and what they do. It puts pressure on them to look a certain way and they are then condemned if they don’t. I am a thirteen year old girl and in our secondary school we have these swipe cards with our pictures on them. The girls in my school literally cover the faces of the pictures with markers, sticky notes and anything they can find. I once I asked why and their reply was “Well, because I’m ugly” I proceeded to ask why they thought so they said “Well I don’t exactly look as nice as Kim Kardishian do I”?

Now what does this say about our society? And about social media and how it affects young girls and boys? Well I would like to hear anyone else’s two cents. 

Lettuce end this discussion.