A few weeks ago we learned about deviance through an activity in which we were supposed to go out and cause a good deviance whether it was doing the dishes for once or paying for somebody behind you. I guess the point of the assignment was to see the impact of what doing something different does.
In my own experience doing it i noticed being deviant is basically frowned upon in this society. What is did was try to pay for the meal for the person behind me at a fast food restaurant and when i handed the cashier the extra money they looked at me funny offering me the money back and almost getting in an argument with me as i tried to explain i was just doing a nice thing.
It's funny to see how in the country that's supposed to be the place where you can do anything you want that everyone what we chose to do is be like others. We are much more of a conformist nation than one of deviance. We grow up learning to be like your neighbor and that being different is frowned upon, yet we are always getting told to be our-selves but if our selves isn't like the rest then we get yelled at. Most of us live our whole live growing up living basically to be someone else. To fit in. And if anyone strays away from that typical style they aren't looked at as unique and outgoing but as weird and a freak. These differences can be anything from the clothes we wear to how we talk and even how we pay for our meals. And we go to great lengths to fix these deviance's. Using medication and therapy is we have too much energy and spending way to much money to keep everything the same as your peers. The term "keeping up with the Jones's" comes to mined when i look t how our society is. Instead of valuing what we have for ourselves we always are looking at others and if its not the same as them then we are behind and different and that not a good thing.
What gets me is who sets these standards that we all conform too. The media? The Government? Or is it just something that happens naturally?
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