It's no different to people seeing the "Goth" style of clothing choices being described as showing individualism. Which is, indeed, exactly how I heard many (v

It's no different to people seeing the "Goth" style of clothing choices being described as showing individualism. Which is, indeed, exactly how I heard many (very nice, friendly and often intelligent) teenagers describe their decision to wear nothing but black. By rejecting what you consider to be mainstream, you feel you can describe yourself as different, it doesn't matter that you are merely conforming to the behaviours of a smaller subset. There is some comfort in being able to declare yourself as being different I think, I'm just not sold on the idea it shows Individualism (if that is even a word, I need an ism for it though)