Conformity In Our Society

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In everyday life, their is conformity all over the world most people do not want to be the only one standing out of a crowd in less they look really good. Personally, most people I know are conformist, but they also like to be different. Most people in our society have goals and that's either to be wealthy or be famous why because most people want to be on top. People want to be friends with movie stars and want to have money and be famous, although not everyone has the same goals. In Addition, people in society feel embarrassed when they do something different than others in an activity or in social terms. Now everyone has phones and computers or tablets and the people that don't feel embarrassed because they don't have what most people have. In this society, people either want to fit in or not, but the ones who don't care about fitting in are looked at as being weird, although they're wrong they're just different they don't care what other people think about them self. Furthermore, there are people in this society that want to fit in, however, they want to be different too. Moreover, conformity is pressure when you are doing something different than everyone else and you just immediately do what everybody else is doing that's an example of …show more content…
In Addition, non-conformist doesn't care what other people think they just like to be themselves. Some non-conformist does not want to fit in or be around other people they like to be alone in a place that there're not many people. They just don't like to be around society also don't like to be around anything. The example just like the leopard man that lives in the woods away from society. Furthermore, non-conformist and conformist are very opposite from each other everyone is different but conformist is the same kind of different as leaders of a group or non-conformist that don't

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