Conformity Research Paper
“Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.” - John F. Kennedy. Humans have been conforming since the beginning of Humankind. The way I see it, We all conform without even noticing it. It is in our system, like remembering to feed the dog in the morning. Sometimes, we do it just to fit in and not to look like the odd one out. But why do we conform; is it because we are too afraid for the world to see who we really are or because it guided us throughout our whole existence? The truth is, we will never stop conforming even if someone put a gun to our heads and threatened us to stop. In our society where conforming is the only way to live, I don’t see new, innovative ideas to help us in our future. In the end, conforming is
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Now there are those that say conforming isn’t necessarily bad, and they have their reasons, but conforming is mostly our worst virus. Some examples they give is that conforming can help others accept you. The only problem is they aren’t accepting who you really are, they are accepting the you that just follows the norm. Another example is people conform to society’s manners like how to shake hands correctly or how to dress appropriately. But doing this hides the true creative minds in the world and denies their true potential. Glenn Drexhage’s Majority rule: why conformity can actually be a good thing, states that Michael Muthukrishna believes in people conforming is a good thing for cultural evolution. But if everyone follows the exact same procedure everyday, we would never evolve and stay in an endless loop of no creativity and remakes. Muthukrishna also believes that when we conform we copy all popular things in the world which can be “good and useful.” (Par. 4). The question is what is really good and useful? Just because someone or a group believes in something, not everyone is going to have the same perspective about that subject. For example, China has a very interesting and well-mannered social standards. But for us and many others, we find their traditions and beliefs very strange and different. If it is different than we don’t care to learn about it or research it. We just dust it away as if it didn’t matter. But humans need to understand that other beliefs, traditions, perspectives, they all
Now there are those that say conforming isn’t necessarily bad, and they have their reasons, but conforming is mostly our worst virus. Some examples they give is that conforming can help others accept you. The only problem is they aren’t accepting who you really are, they are accepting the you that just follows the norm. Another example is people conform to society’s manners like how to shake hands correctly or how to dress appropriately. But doing this hides the true creative minds in the world and denies their true potential. Glenn Drexhage’s Majority rule: why conformity can actually be a good thing, states that Michael Muthukrishna believes in people conforming is a good thing for cultural evolution. But if everyone follows the exact same procedure everyday, we would never evolve and stay in an endless loop of no creativity and remakes. Muthukrishna also believes that when we conform we copy all popular things in the world which can be “good and useful.” (Par. 4). The question is what is really good and useful? Just because someone or a group believes in something, not everyone is going to have the same perspective about that subject. For example, China has a very interesting and well-mannered social standards. But for us and many others, we find their traditions and beliefs very strange and different. If it is different than we don’t care to learn about it or research it. We just dust it away as if it didn’t matter. But humans need to understand that other beliefs, traditions, perspectives, they all