The conformity aspect is misunderstood, I'd say. It's like that sterotype of the rude frenchman not understanding english - some vestige of reality but in essence and common useage pushed beyond self-parody.
It works like this: no-one cares if I was to paint my kitchen pink with yellow and turquoise polka-dots. It's my kitchen, and I can…
The conformity aspect is misunderstood, I'd say. It's like that sterotype of the rude frenchman not understanding english - some vestige of reality but in essence and common useage pushed beyond self-parody.
It works like this: no-one cares if I was to paint my kitchen pink with yellow and turquoise polka-dots. It's my kitchen, and I can do whatever I want with it- people would have opinions and voice them and think me either colour-blind or a loon or both, but it wouldn't be seen as "wrong", just odd.
But if I was to cover my car with swears and slurs, people would react because now I'm forcing my choice on others.
That's the conformity aspect: do what you want, but not in such a way it harms or disrupts others. Exactly where that line is (and this of course overlaps with personal contra public responsibility issues), is the main point of many domestic debates - should the trains have a special area for allergics not for instance.
So the whole conformity thing can best be summed up as "If your personal oddities and originalities does not impact others negatively or harmfully, you do you, but don't expect not to hear about it".
And as this is tacit cultural instinct-powered, to the outsider it looks borderline chinese in conformity.
What about all the Pride stuff being imposed on population, even bus drivers in Stockholm being forced to carry rainbow symbols on city buses. Doesn't that inconvenience a lot of people who are not necessarily LGBT haters but, let's say, mildly annoyed by them?
The conformity aspect is misunderstood, I'd say. It's like that sterotype of the rude frenchman not understanding english - some vestige of reality but in essence and common useage pushed beyond self-parody.
It works like this: no-one cares if I was to paint my kitchen pink with yellow and turquoise polka-dots. It's my kitchen, and I can do whatever I want with it- people would have opinions and voice them and think me either colour-blind or a loon or both, but it wouldn't be seen as "wrong", just odd.
But if I was to cover my car with swears and slurs, people would react because now I'm forcing my choice on others.
That's the conformity aspect: do what you want, but not in such a way it harms or disrupts others. Exactly where that line is (and this of course overlaps with personal contra public responsibility issues), is the main point of many domestic debates - should the trains have a special area for allergics not for instance.
So the whole conformity thing can best be summed up as "If your personal oddities and originalities does not impact others negatively or harmfully, you do you, but don't expect not to hear about it".
And as this is tacit cultural instinct-powered, to the outsider it looks borderline chinese in conformity.
What about all the Pride stuff being imposed on population, even bus drivers in Stockholm being forced to carry rainbow symbols on city buses. Doesn't that inconvenience a lot of people who are not necessarily LGBT haters but, let's say, mildly annoyed by them?