Conformity and stuff

Conformity
People are brought up as their minds are embedded with religious, cultural/social, and philosophical beliefs. We are all a product of our environment and our own decisions. As we grow up, we “absorb” cultural values, behavior, and religious beliefs. That somewhat defines where we stand in society or how we may feel about our selves. However, that is not exactly “as it is” because how we feel about ourselves and where we “seem” to fit in has just as much to do with our interpretation as much as it has to do with comparing our status with each other according to “the standard” which varies throughout the world. We absorb values and beliefs and simultaneously we also interperet and apply them in different ways although overall patterns and charcteristics may be similar (that’s part of the reason why everyone is different).
Conformity is one of those things that just happens because as we grow up, we absorb, experience, learn, interpret, and interact with our environment just as the environment (people-culture,) interacts with us. We can all point fingers and blaim or look down upon other cultures and countries for whatever resons but in the end no culture/race or any individual is perfect. That being said, lets take a look at some aspects of ummm, my culture. For example, througout India and it’s neighboirng countries, all “follow” the caste system or at least has some attributes of the caste system to a certain extent even in present times. Although the caste system still has it’s influence througout southeast Asia, it has chaged. It’s somewhat like how it was a segregated America verus the America after segregation, racism did not vanish evethough it not so obvious or frequent anymore.The caste system works like this: people getting married have to be in the same socioeconomic status and people that are even friends have to be in the same socioeconomic status. Sevents in peoples houses and offices are definitely not treated equally or the same as the people he/she serves. If someone is breaking the “rules” by marring someone who differs from his/her socio-economic stauts, then such people are considered defiant. If people are Simply put, people get criticized for being devient for whatevery it may be, for better or worse. Fortunately, the caste system lost it’s influence and people get along very well with people of different socioeconomic status and culture nowadays.
Being obdient and conforming to the “standards” is just like a barrier, it’s a type of boundary. Many people are afraid of being criticized for being “different” or do things that are “incompatible” with their cultural and or religious beliefs. But then again, there are people who do what they want (which is fine as longs as others are not hurt or offended) which would be considered devient (in some aspects it’s a good thing and in others it is destructive).