• oce 🐆@jlai.luOP
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    2 months ago

    There’s a culture of not sticking out of the pack, and the feeling that everyone is judging you if you do. It’s sadly more about that than deep understanding of the value of civism, according to my native friends.

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      2 months ago

      This just how I think of society and people in general why I have so much social anxiety

      • oce 🐆@jlai.luOP
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        2 months ago

        I think Western cultures often value differentiating yourself from the mass, it has its stupid downsides too of course.