“The reward for conformity,” Rita Mae Brown once said, “is that everyone likes you but yourself.” This meaningful quote expresses that individuals maintain hatred towards themselves in order to conform to horrible decisions and acts. Millions of people have attempted to conform to the actions of the world such as dressing a certain way, making bad decisions, or selecting a poor choice of friends, to experience the pleasure of fitting in, but the attempts to do so only made life even more agonized and disastrous. To be a conformist, one must first lose his or her own morals and instead focus on what society has in store, whether it may be good or bad. Expressed through the use of a great deal of violent and cruel acts, conformity is the main…
the mindset of wanting to fit in but simultaneously stand out leads to everyone being similar. But as Emerson stated in his work “Self-Reliance”, “we but half express ourselves, and are ashamed of the divine idea which each of us represents” (369). Showing how people being afraid to completely express themselves manifest the movement of fitting in. Another example from Thoreau of modern day Americans losing opportunities because they want to fit in is, “... that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life in which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours” (Walden 385). He’s depicting the idea that if everyone lives the life they imaged, rather than one to be accepted, success is a…
A plethorabig percentage of people in the world follow the road most traveled and do not deviate from that path. They try so hard to “fit in,” and be like everybody else. For example, when a brand of shoe is trending, like Nike, everyone buys Nike shoes so they are “accepted” in the public eye. Another example is when people take pictures of their food and post it on social media for “likes.” These examples of uniformity happen everyday in our society, and eventually people start to look, act, think, and talk alike.…
Conformity is an issue many teens face today. It takes over the average teenager's mind, so they choose to conform to the popular trends and fashion; therefore, they lose sight of what should mean the most, being themselves. How can we be our self without being called weird, stupid, freak and etc. When it comes to the topic of conformity most of us will readily agree that we want to be different instead of being who isn’t you. Many of us would give up our uniqueness, extraordinary distinctiveness, just to fit in a group.…
Hipster Cows (An Analysis of Conformity Through Colin Wilson's Quote) Emerson once said, "To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. " Man will never be able to fully eradicate conformity, because it is human nature to a certain degree, but one can prevent the unnecessary conformity. The brave few who follow the path less traveled often finds it a rewarding experience. If one can escape the repertoire of life expectations, their roadmap of vitality will be as colorful as Neapolitan ice cream.…
In a world comprised of people who hardly seem different from anyone else, do you believe that people would so readily relinquish their sense of self? The dictionary definition of conformity is the “ compliance with standards, rules or laws.” On the other hand, individuality is defined as “ the quality or character of a particular person or thing that distinguishes them from others of the same kind, especially when strongly marked.” Bradbury reveals the theme that conformity suppresses individuality through fear, exclusion, and the criminalization of the individuals who dare to defy social normalities. The literature that will be used is Fahrenheit 451.…
“Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth”John F. Kennedy once said. Meaning that it puts limits to a person’s success not allowing them to go further. People Conform to many things such as to fit in a group but what they are doing is destroying their individualism. The meaing of being human is to be unique and to be different from the crowd. Conformity causes people to lose their individuality and it also stops someone from growing.…
If everyone person goes against society, they are conforming to individuality by being self-reliant. One person originally comes up with an out of box idea then there are people take the idea and transform it in their own way. Everyone did have to take the initial step all the same, then they branched out into being their own individual. If everyone stays the same and does not think in a transcendental way, then they are completely conforming. Being an individual is to be self-reliant a way to express thoughts and actions of any one person.…
People tend to notice things that are different. If something stands out or is different than the rest, it immediately draws attention, and attention draws scrutiny. By doing something different or simply by naturally standing out, a person is inviting scrutiny and judgement as to whether that difference is a positive or negative thing, or, as Turkish philosopher Mehmet Murat Ildan insightfully and correctly put it, a blessing or a curse. Changes in policy or thinking are often noticeable and inevitably reacted to with either popular support or popular condemnation. When Franklin Roosevelt changed the government’s position towards the economy forever by instituting his “New Deal”, or when Donald Trump decided to change the way we guard our border by erecting a wall, a change was made in the attitude of our government in regards to the welfare and security of America, and they were certainly judged for it.…
Conformity vs Individuality: Individuality Is The Key Logan Feys,”The Sociology of Leopard Man,” says that, “Unfortunately, we are currently living in society where we are under constant pressure to surrender our individuality to the will of the majority, the school, the workplace, and the family.” As human being our lives are forced on choosing to be a conformist or an individual. Most times we are confused and rushed. My own view is us humans should chose to be our individual selves.…
really enjoyed working on this assignment. It made me think back on my life, and I believe I have been through all of “Merton’s Five Types of Adaptation.” (Merton, R.K. (1968) I totally understand this Strain Theory.…
Do you know how this world would be with conformity?, a disaster. It's often said that being yourself is good, but yet people ,don’t listen to themselves. They are too scared, they don’t want to become themselves because they don't want people to judge them, they don't want to get picked on. So people now days just follow others; they never become a leader. The…
We live in a society where it is difficult to go against the norm. Each of us are pressured to act a certain way, or look a certain way in order to be accepted. Such as teenagers may face peer pressure to do certain activities that may not be right to them, but do it anyways, because they want to fit in. But this burden of conformity is not only present in the real world, it can be found in literature as well. The story "St. Lucy’s Home For Girls Raised by Wolves" by Karen Russell depicts that in order to conform to society, individuals abandon their selflessness and compassion and become selfish and apathetic.…
We, as humans, like to believe that we always stand out in a crowd and never conform to please society. This freedom to be an individual is held to a higher degree than most of our other freedoms. Humans believe that we always use this freedom to speak our opinions and rarely admit to changing our views to comply with a group. As much as we deny that we don’t, it seems that more often than not, we follow the crowd. In her article “Group Minds”, Doris Lessing was on the right track when she described how humans stand for choice and individualism, but when faced with the situation, most tend to fall in line with the majority.…
Who or what defines human nature? How do human beings shape and create their existence? Humankind is a benevolent species that is fueled by compassion, empathy, kindness, love, and many other emotions that allow people to care for those around them. As a result, human beings are constantly creating and reshaping their existence simultaneously through the choices they make. However, the ability to freely choose and decide can bring positive or negative outcomes on behalf of humankind.…