The word "conformism" is a valid word in written English, and it is used to describe an excessive desire to conform or comply with conventional standards, norms, and attitudes, often at the expense of individual desires or beliefs.
For example, "John's conformism made it difficult for him to stay true to his own beliefs, even when the people around him disagreed."
It is a struggle against cowardice and conformism, and against everyone who would crush both truth and imagination into a cramped coffin of orthodoxy.
Neutral diplomats may call Cuba a communist paradise, but the tactful faces of the Russian experts carry a hint of their bafflement at the soaring hopes, the sunstruck lethargy, the eager conformism and the even more eager heresies of Caribbean socialism.
The original flower children, he explains, wanted to swap the conformism of the 1950s for spiritual enlightenment.
He derides the conformism of the art scene, and chides the curators of big international art shows for their "repression" of alternative styles.In this section A fragile superpower Hangings in the wild west Hick or Hickey?
Recently, however, such ideological conformism has been disappearing.
Their basic insight is that human beings are fallible: lazy, stupid, greedy and weak; loss-averse, stubborn, and prone to inertia and conformism.
Yet they had a window on a wider world, exemplified in the third striking trend in glasnost non-conformism: a fascination with the United States, as the ultimate expression of political incorrectness.
So desperate would they be not to miss the latest trend that they'd deny their very non-conformism by joining in.
Proud Sussex resident Peter Owen-Jones, the vicar and broadcaster who knows a thing or two about non-conformism after dropping out of school at 16 and running a mobile disco before becoming an advertising executive, said: "Until the middle ages at least, Sussex was incredibly wooded – it was somewhere people could hole up in a way that wasn't possible in the likes of Surrey or Kent.
No, what I really hate about 'Glasto' is this myth that somehow it's still some kind of anti-authoritarian, dissident manifestation of Ye Olde Englishe Non-Conformism.
But the arrival of the free market also spelt the beginning of the end of non-conformism, just as it spelt the beginning of the end of the Soviet Union.
