Examples Of Non Conformity

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Conformity can be seen everywhere in my personal life because I am a teenager which is stereotyped as the age of non-conformity, I have been in and a part of peer pressure situations and I am usually classified in the non-conformist class. As of now I definitely see more individuals trying to conform to the crowd or at least their group of friends and I believe this is because everyone wants to be a part of a group, no one gladly accepts being a loner or an outsider but these traits are given to you by the choices of others and not the actual rebels themselves. Usually large groups of boys who are next to each other any time they can all have the same clothes, personalities, haircuts and humor. I personally have never been friends with people …show more content…

Non-conformist like atheist can have a very hard time trying to find people that are okay with having an atheist friend because most of society is religious and atheist tend to have such a bad rap behind them because they are stereotyped as being non-moral and dangerous people even though they are usually no different morally from any religious person. Another example could be the goth or “emo” people who are also stereotyped and this affects them in the real world even though these stereotypes come from movies and TV they are still considered to be like this in the real world. So I would say as these generations pass there is definitely more of an acceptance towards people who are non-conformist but towards the older ages it is probably a lot harder to be accepted because they grew up in a time totally different than us and they probably did non-conformist things when they were teenagers also but they don’t realize this. Conformity is learned and is not talked about until people are teenagers which affects the emotional way of life probably very much because people don’t realize how they are going to be treated until they go to public environments and find out. Whether people are conformist or nonconformist there will always be many different kinds of people,personalities and emotions so we must find what we connect with and walk with these people like us because it is

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