Cultural Conformity And Compliance

Recently, there has been a spate of interest in how the variability in cultural values shapes one’s attitude, explicitly concerning about the extent to which one would comply to superior members in the community or society. How do Chinese and Japanese differ from Americans in ways and tendency to conform? There is now much evidence notably, the iconic Milgram Study (1974), supports his hypothesis of conformity to authority figures in Western Countries. However, some properties of conformity are still not completely understood. There are as yet few situations of how the influence of different cultural values works on compliance. The purpose of this paper is to identify any relationship to be respectful and self-conscious of own social status and tendency of conformity and compliance. It is hypothesized that countries emphasize the difference in social class and respect to parents at home will show a higher tendency in conforming to orders by authoritative figures.

B. & Goldstein, N. J., 2004) while one might privately disagree on it (Myers, 2012). Conformity refers to “the act of changing one’s behavior to match the responses of others” (Cialdini, R. B. & Goldstein, N. J., 2004, p. 606), as a result of group pressure either in a real or imagined situation (Myers, 2012).
A specification on how a child is taught to be obedient and respectful to parents relates to complying with orders of their parents. “孝順” (Chinese pinyin: “xiaoshun”, also known as filial piety), is a virtue valued by most Chinese, raised by the Confucian philosophers as early as in Han dynasty. Filial Piety typically refers to “Children’s attitudes about how they should treat their parents” (Chen, W. W. & Wu, C. W., 2017, p. 441). To be a “xiaoshun” child includes attending to their parents’ instructions and needs, taking care of them as they grow old and age (Yeh, K. H., & Bedford, O.,