That word is great. I notice Google translates Spiessbürger as "philistine," which gets the conformity aspect, but doesn't capture the resistance to change. I

That word is great. I notice Google translates Spiessbürger as "philistine," which gets the conformity aspect, but doesn't capture the resistance to change. In English, stick-in-the-mud ("spiess" means stick, but the etymology of Spiessbürger is older than this) or fuddy-duddy capture some of this part of the meaning. "Babbit" or "Babbitry" may be the closest English terms to capturing the whole meaning.