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capable. People who do not adhere to these social
norms can be mocked or otherwise isolated in
their social groups. Other cultures have similar
notions. In 2017, comparative politics professors
Dr. Cornelius Cappelen and Dr. Stefan Dahlburg
described cultural ranges of these, such as that
in Scandinavia, “the idea that one should never try
to be more, try to be different, or consider oneself
more valuable than other people is referred to
as the Jante mentality,” and in Japan there is a
popular phrase that “the nail that stands out gets
hammered down.”
Some research even suggests that ...