Summary Of Malcolm Gladwell's 'The Tipping Point'

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An interesting section in The Tipping Point is when Malcolm Gladwell explains how parents can’t mold their children’s behavior. He thinks peoples behaviors are influenced by their peers. Another interesting section is when Malcolm explains how the suicide epidemic in Micronesia can be compared with the smoking epidemic of teenagers. Malcolm believes that parents don’t have the ability to shape who we are. He states that we are who we are because of our peers. For example, Malcolm expresses that parents don’t influence their children into smoking; they are influenced by other kids. An example is when Malcolm talks about how adults describe their earliest experience with cigarettes. He implied that when the adults were kids, they observed