What an interesting topic. Being the anthro graduate I had to comment. I know ZChiforlife will be in here soon, too.
I often ponder conformity. We are so thoroughly enmeshed in it, that we are hardly capable of realizing the full extent to which we conform in everyday life. The fact that you might eat some things with a fork when hands are easier, the idea that certain colors "go" together, every sentence we say, the fact that almost all women shave their bodies and put on face paint (oops, I mean "make-up"). Almost everything we do is affected by the society we live in, though biologists must certainly have a different perspective, and they are winning me over a little.
Anyway, I therefore find it hypocritical that people say fraternities and sororities are conformist (which of course, they are, to the same extent as the rest of the world) and then go and conform to a thousand little things we have been taught to do from birth. Even the ways we express our "differences" have an element of conformity to them.
But enough with the lecture; I'm sure you see.
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