Authenticity is important because conforming to the mainstream make people lose who they originally are because they are alter their unique identities and personalities to be accepted by others. We are diverse and have our unique characteristics. It is unfair that we have to alter their identity because of social pressure that society doesn’t accept our lifestyle, behavior and ethnicity. We all have situation that doing many things in life we might not feel comfortable as much but that can be attributed to social pressure or even from family pressure. During Yoshino’s life, he was asked by his family to be one hundred percent of Japanese in Japan and one hundred percent of American in states. Even though Yoshino didn’t feel hated when was asked
