the.com/conformity
The art of being a photocopy and calling it personality.
means The act of matching your beliefs, behavior, or appearance to what a group expects, often to fit in or avoid friction.
from From Latin conformare, 'to shape, to bring into correspondence' — com- ('together') plus formare ('to form,' from forma, 'shape'). So at its root it just means 'to be shaped together with others,' like clay pressed into the same mold as everyone else's.
- origin
- Latin for shaping together, not thinking together
- asch experiments
- people denied obvious facts to match the group
- irony
- everyone thinks they are the exception to it
- social glue
- keeps traffic orderly and individuality endangered