Alas, right now it seems that many-to-most people value conformity more than privacy.
In Filipino culture, if a student did something differently from others, it would be an indication that the student does not value conformity and may be willing to challenge authority.
According to Hofstede [ 19], in low power distance societies (low hierarchy) teachers tend to treat students as equals and students put value on independence, whereas in high power distance societies, such as Japan, students are dependent on teachers and value conformity.
While he now worked in an environment that valued conformity, Ryan himself was an open, fun-loving dude with a foot fetish.
I left because I couldn't bear being forbidden to think my own thoughts, couldn't survive in a group that valued conformity and obedience over creativity.
Indeed, the protests would hardly raise an eyebrow in most parts of the world, but in this country, which values conformity, they represent a stark departure from the norm.
Still, in a society that values conformity and order, most Japanese remain deeply averse to confrontation and protest, and there is nothing approaching what could be called a mass movement.
That appeared to undercut the argument that Confucian culture, which values conformity, and Communism, which values the collective, make China an inappropriate home for psychoanalysis, which privileges individual memory and experience.
The interval data fusion procedures can be widely applied in interlaboratory comparisons, prediction of fundamental constant values on the base of different measured values, conformity testing, enhancement of multisensor readings accuracy in sensor networks, etc.
Supporters of the rally here in Tokyo, and in coordinated events in many other cities in Japan, say the demonstration was remarkable not because of its size, but because it happened at all in a country that so values conformity and order.
One dimension contrasts openness to change (self-direction, stimulation, hedonism) and conservation values (conformity, tradition, security).
