Quotes About Social norms

Society possesses a conventional standard whereby it judges all things.

I have had my fair share of relationships. It's normal and one shouldn't judge me for it because in school you have many short-short relationships, you know.

If you took some of the behavior that you see in the fashion world and put it anywhere else, it would just be embarrassing.

In Bangladesh, if you put a kiss in a film, it's political.

American culture is so open compared to Korean culture, which is really conservative.

I thought the fart was a human thing. It's something to do with like, arse cheeks, or whatever.

Most of us, it seems, have a strong inclination to accept the peculiarities of our social environment as if they were 'natural'.

When the priest says 'Lord, have mercy upon us', you do not respond 'Well, actually, why should he?' You intone dutifully, 'Christ, have mercy upon us.' In the same way, it would be very rude to respond to 'Ooh, isn't it cold?' with 'No, actually, it's quite mild.

The reasons for our prolific understating are not hard to discover: our strict prohibitions on earnestness, gushing, emoting and boasting require almost constant use of understatement.

People who insist on calculating in detail exactly who had what when it comes to dividing up the bill are despised, not just because they are miserly, but because such discussions involve a prolonged breach of the money-talk taboo.

Yeterince erkeksi ya da kad?ns? olmamak, do?al yap?ya ayk?r? dü?mek gibi gösteriliyor. Ve hepimiz kad?n ya da erkek olarark do?du?umuz için, cinsel ki?ili?imizi yitirirsek yok olaca??m?z gibi bir dü?ünceye uyarlanmak isteniyoruz.

She is no one, because she lacks any trait that might render her visible: beauty, money, conformity.

Yeterince erkeksi ya da kad?ns? olmamak, do?al yap?ya ayk?r? dü?mek gibi gösteriliyor. Ve hepimiz kad?n ya da erkek olarak do?du?umuz için, cinsel ki?ili?imizi yitirirsek yok olaca??m?z gibi bir dü?ünceye uyarlanmak isteniyoruz.

Preparing for landing, then, calls for taking the economy out of that growth autopilot and redesigning the financial, political and social structures that have turned growth into what Rostow called 'the normal condition'.

All well-brought-up people are afraid of having any experience which seems to them uncharacteristic of themselves as they imagine themselves to be.

When the middle and upper classes feared water, roughly from the Renaissance to the end of the eighteenth century, they washed as little as peasants or the urban poor.

From a very early age, girls were taught to restrain themselves physically and emotionally.

Just being female made women candidates for perpetual medical care, because doctors began treating all the normal passages of their lives—puberty, menstruation, childbirth, and menopause—as illnesses.

What is disassembling is that narrow self we have thus far put together in a form tailored to please the culture and other people.

The Drunk's Blue Book, written by Norman Anthony and O. Soglow in 1933, for instance, details what the authors call the Drunk's Code: Free lunch. Free speech. Free cheers. Five-day week. Every third drink on the house. Lower curbstones. Overstuffed gutters. More lampposts. Rubber nightsticks and rolling pins. More keyholes for every door. More farmers' daughters. Colder ice. Two cocktails for a quarter. Bigger and better beers.

Simply being an introvert can also feel taxing—especially in America, land of the loud and home of the talkative.

If by weirdo he meant that Nick didn't play grab-ass with the wannabes on the street corner, didn't yank at his crotch and call girls bitches, didn't wear oversized jerseys and pretend to be a gangsta all day, then yeah, Nick had to agree.

Opting out just isn't a viable choice for most of us, most of the time; it violates what have become very real norms of contemporary life.

When you're twenty-two and you pass out at a friend's house, it's totally normal. When you do it at forty-two, you're never invited back.