What Does It Mean To Be Free Thinkers?

In today’s society people are not seen as free thinkers. People are not able to be free thinkers because society merely relies on others to imitate, we are taught to think the same, and there is fear of judgment due to an open mind.
The human society is merely imitation. We live our everyday life how society anticipates us to do so. Imitation is an intention of copying something or someone else. People have an unconscious desire to imitate others, which is very powerful. From mimicking someones facial expression to attempting to copy someones accent, imitation is seen as a way to connect. We copy movements, speech and behavioral patterns, and most importantly we adopt the same beliefs and values as others. When we copy others we take aspects of their identity into our own. And why is this harmful? Then we as humans lose our individuality and sense of being our own person. A free thinker is one who forms their own opinions instead of accepting

Apposed to those things, we are all made up the same and are treated in the same respect. We all have the same instincts, needs, wants, feels, reasoning, discrimination, drives, and other aspects of life that make us who we are. Starting off at an early age one is usually taught by their parents, who were taught by their own parents, and so forth. So in some way, parents have a major influence of shaping a person. Take for example religious beliefs. They are passed down generation to generation and that is all one knows until you can start forming your own decisions. People do not know how to think outside the box. How do we know that coloring outside of the lines of a coloring books is wrong. That restricts creativity. Who says its not okay to color outside the lines and go outside the box? Who gives anyone the right to declare what teachings are correct and which ones