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"Public Property?"

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 We keep on whining about how we as teenagers don’t have a choice. How our parents and teachers expect the absolute best from us and for us and occasionally carry out inhumane injunctions to ensure that we have a secure future and our families have brighter names. All of us are given something to fight over. Whether it be in the honor-bound versions we are in front of our guardians to the overly protective and sensitive citizen we become when it comes to religion or ethnicity , we are constantly on a defensive mode. A YouTube comment dares rub us in the wrong way and we dedicate the next few hours to ensure that the person knows our exact opinion of them. What was that? K-pop is what now?!   What is really ironic though is how little choice we give ourselves. We live in a world in which a 16 year old girl’s poorly waxed upper lip will stir more gossip than national disaster. We are part of a society where we simultaneously blame lack of opportunities for our low self-co