Non-conformity day report
NON CONFORMITY DAY REPORT
A non-conformist is someone who does not conform to other people’s ideas on how things should be and should be done but instead he/she follows her/his individuality. This may be influenced by many factors like the need for uniqueness. Most non-conformist violate certain social norms and for my non conformity day exercise I had to wear something extra ordinary to school just to see how people will react to all that and me being a follower of the Rastafarian movement I wore a Muslim kurta on this day. At the beginning of this exercise I had mixed feelings because it felt wrong doing something I completely was disagreeing with, but at the same time I had to be obedient to what my lecturer said. I had feelings of paranoia because of fear of what people might think of me to an extend that I ended up having thoughts of not attending school at all but there more I got used to the idea of wearing something completely different to what I normally wear, I started looking forward to how people will react to the new me if I may say. Monday 14 October’13 I woke up feeling nervous and scared because I did not know how people will react to me wearing a kurta. The first person to see me wearing the kurta was my mother and she was surprised to see me wearing it because even she did not know that I even have a kurta and it looking like a dress she felt it was inappropriate for me to go to school wearing it. By the time I left the house some of the guys who are my neighbours laughed at me and they kind of thought I was high on drugs but the most interesting part about the whole thing was that some of the people I normally meet as I go to the combi stop starred at me and the minute I got to the stop I was the centre of attraction and to make matters worse the guys I was with were still making fun of me so everyone there laughed at me. As I got to school I felt like taking the kurta off because it felt like everyone was looking at me and I started
A non-conformist is someone who does not conform to other people’s ideas on how things should be and should be done but instead he/she follows her/his individuality. This may be influenced by many factors like the need for uniqueness. Most non-conformist violate certain social norms and for my non conformity day exercise I had to wear something extra ordinary to school just to see how people will react to all that and me being a follower of the Rastafarian movement I wore a Muslim kurta on this day. At the beginning of this exercise I had mixed feelings because it felt wrong doing something I completely was disagreeing with, but at the same time I had to be obedient to what my lecturer said. I had feelings of paranoia because of fear of what people might think of me to an extend that I ended up having thoughts of not attending school at all but there more I got used to the idea of wearing something completely different to what I normally wear, I started looking forward to how people will react to the new me if I may say. Monday 14 October’13 I woke up feeling nervous and scared because I did not know how people will react to me wearing a kurta. The first person to see me wearing the kurta was my mother and she was surprised to see me wearing it because even she did not know that I even have a kurta and it looking like a dress she felt it was inappropriate for me to go to school wearing it. By the time I left the house some of the guys who are my neighbours laughed at me and they kind of thought I was high on drugs but the most interesting part about the whole thing was that some of the people I normally meet as I go to the combi stop starred at me and the minute I got to the stop I was the centre of attraction and to make matters worse the guys I was with were still making fun of me so everyone there laughed at me. As I got to school I felt like taking the kurta off because it felt like everyone was looking at me and I started