Everyday observation confirms that we often adopt the actions and attitudes of the peoplearound us. Trends in clothing, music, foods, and entertainment are obvious. But our views onpolitical issues, religious questions, and lifestyles also reflect to some degree the attitudes ofthe people we interact with. Similarly, decisions about behaviors such as smoking and drinkingare influenced by whether the people we spend time with engage in these activities.Psychologists refer to this widespread tendency to act and think like the people around us asconformity
In my opinion, this could also be a form of peer pressure because this is basically saying that people are conforming to the people around us attitudes and trends it more as so we " have to " or we "should " mimic a certain trend or attitude. for me this happened to me when i was in middle school and high school. i remember buying certain clothes and shoes because either my friends had them or many people in school had them. .