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[quote=GUESTHAND,292767]One interesting aspect of culture is the degree to which its members expect everyone to conform, to all think and act in similar ways. Some scholars divide cultures into two broad categories，"loose" and "tight". 
 
"Loose" cultures do not demand a high degree of conformity. "Tight" cultures, in contrast, expect a relatively high degree of conformity.

Well, it sounds abstract! While I was at school, my professor put it simply through an interesting illustration; He said that the difference between loose and tight culture can be found in how they deal with people who are born with left-handed.In virtually all societies, there are more right-handed people than left-handed ones. So the left-handed people are "different". In loose cultures, children who favor their left hand are generally not encouraged to use their right hand. In contrast, in tight cultures, children who favor their left hand are encouraged or even forced to use their right hand instead, and hence the percentage of left-handed people in the adult population is much smaller.

Generally speaking, western cultures tend to be loose; Chinese culture tends to be tight. When I was a Child, I favored left hand, my parents forced me to use the right hand to write and hold chopsticks. They hoped me to conform to the accepted norms and behavior. Are you left-handed? How did people around you deal with you when you were a child?

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