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From: trz@drume.UUCP (ZehrbachT)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: conformity/nonconformity
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Date: Wed, 8-May-85 10:52:15 EDT
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Posted: Wed May  8 10:52:15 1985
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Reading all this discussion about conforming and nonconforming has brought
back to mind my college days (I graduated in 82).
Back in those days I was bound and determined to be myself, to be an 
individual, to go out of my way to not conform to social norms.
I'd rot in hell before I bought an Izod shirt, only conformists
wore that kind of shirt.  I was stronger than that.


Then I took a class on Marketing (don't ask me why) and I learned in the 
class that the latest TREND, the IN thing, was to be an INDIVIDUAL, to 
NOT conform to any norms.  Thus, the newest norm was to not bow to any norms.
Hmmmmm.

This came as quite a shock to me.  Think of it, you're going along fine,
reveling in your own individuality, because it is the REAL you, and now
you find out that society has told you to be that way!  So now I don't know
if I am being an individual for myself of if I am doing it for society. -:)


                               Tom Zehrbach