I don't like conformity, mainly because it takes away self expression and replaces it with 92% of people looking EXACTLY THE SAME. Now looking at anyone under the age of 20 I've realized that there only two real looks for people. One is a hip-hop look that normally consists of unusally baggy pants and hoodies and the metal-head look which is usually a band T-shirt, jeans, usually something with leather and odd accessories like studded belts and wrist bands. Now there are certain things that that vary from these styles but they're just branches of it. Like Goth and Emo are similar to metalhead and jocks usually look like the hip-hop group. There are only two types of people that don't fit in some way to these two. Nerd (no offense to any out there) and people who just make their own styles. Nerds aren't conformists because most are socially inept except to those they relate to in their interests. (To make it clear when I say "Nerd" I mean the definiton given in The Big Picture as somebody who has fanatical devotion to something that ultimately doesn't matter.)To look at the other side of this, I have a friend who wears a top hat, a monacle, a pocket watch and a trench coat. He made his own style. Which is admirable. He chose not to bend to conformity of others. I also realise that a lot of these people that do conform are usually in the mind set of other people they conform with, as to say they think very much alike. Now I'm slightly guilty of this myself. I'm the standard metalhead who wears studded belts and band T-shirts and I think what most of them believe as well, but that's because I already did and not because I want to fit in.
All that to say, do you consider yourself a conformist and do you think conformity is bad?
