Its fearsome levels of organisation and conformity are offset by a relaxed, outdoorsy culture, and the openness that goes with being a small, maritime country.
The conservative package of collectivism and conformity, by contrast, works in an unstable environment where joint action, and thus obedience to their group, are at a premium.
The most enduring, problematic feature of Freudianism was its claim that the important facts about our mental life are disguised, buried in the "unconscious, " stifled by convention and conformity.
And its influence has even spread to that great bastion of sobriety and conformity, that very fortress of good taste and sensible living, the officials' room at Catterick racecourse, North Yorkshire.
Japanese public primary education emphasizes uniformity and conformity.
Noah Smith replies on twitter that high birth rates were never about caring about the future of society, rather it was based on the need for more farm labor, a lack of birth control, and conformity.
However, the norm would be enforced by society in the same way the current one is: by interacting with each other and praising conformity with the norm, and shaming non-conformity.
"We chose instead to rely on the strong merits of our application and its conformity with planning regulations, " he added.
"My status as assisted witness is not a surprise to me, since I always acted in the interests of the state and in conformity with the law, " Ms Lagarde said after a second day of questioning that lasted some 12 hours.
The bottom line: Acquiring a manufacturing company is a big test for Google and for entrepreneurial companies that seek to expand into business activities that require more conformity and less creativity.
It's a little surprising who defies conformity and who broken-heartedly retreats from possible happiness.
We need to be nudged away from conformity and toward ingenuity, toward answering unknown questions for ourselves.
In describing her own life, what she actually explains are the two competing human impulses - conformity and individualism.
But Britain is a tough, competitive, unequal place, disdainful of conformity and deeply conservative about a surprising number of things.
But it is rich in themes as well: social masks, conformity and credulity, wanting to be loved for oneself alone, madness, despair.
Back then, the inventively trashy filmmaker John Waters was having campy fun with early-'60s hair and fashion, and with his cross-dressing hausfrau, but he was also dressing down a certain set of early-'60s attitudes about conformity and racial segregation.
The processes of promoting and protecting human rights should be conducted in conformity with the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations, and international law.
The prize rewards outstanding activities in the scientific, artistic, cultural or communication field aimed at the promotion of tolerance and non-violence, in conformity with the Charter of the United Nations and the Constitution of UNESCO.
The administration of justice, including law enforcement and prosecutorial agencies and, especially, an independent judiciary and legal profession in full conformity with applicable standards contained in international human rights instruments, are essential to the full and non-discriminatory realization of human rights and indispensable to the processes of democracy and sustainable development.
There is no evidence that tenure encourages conformity, and plenty of evidence to the contrary.
Words and Deeds: Emphasis in U.S. policy should be on highlighting discrepancies between Soviet words and deeds and pressing for their conformity.
Cyprus joined the European Union in 2004 and says it has strengthened its regulations over the past decade against money laundering and is in full conformity with international rules.
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However, in the last 30 years, a handful of businesswomen in India, including Lalita Gupte, Kalpana Morparia, Anu Aga, Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw and Simone Tata, have quietly broken through the barriers of social conformity--both at home and in the workplace--to become successful entrepreneurs and professionals.
An authentic way of being contrasts with acting automatically, reactively, or from unquestioned conformity to expectations and social norms.
The efforts of the United Nations system towards the universal respect for, and observance of, human rights and fundamental freedoms for all, contribute to the stability and well-being necessary for peaceful and friendly relations among nations, and to improved conditions for peace and security as well as social and economic development, in conformity with the Charter of the United Nations.
Instead, teachers liked traits that ran counter to creativity, such as conformity, sincerity, reliability and unquestioned acceptance of authority.
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These are attitudes of conformity, mutual reliance, and relatively weak independence.
"We are obviously disappointed beyond measure, but emphasize that both Mario and his advisers have behaved absolutely in conformity with the contract, " Dortmund Chief Executive Hans-Joachim Watzke said in a statement Tuesday.
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