I would expect the exact opposite. Young people want and need to conform. Trying to stick out early without enough social clout is dangerous. Western kids are

I would expect the exact opposite. Young people want and need to conform. Trying to stick out early without enough social clout is dangerous. Western kids are just as fiercely conservative as their Pakistani peers. But in the west it was the hippie generation that accidentally created all the norms that everyone here have to conserve and conform to. We are no more free than the Pakistanis to decide for ourselves what to believe.