Social_Norm

Social Norm Mark Twain once said, “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it’s time to pause and reflect.” In this statement I found the inspiration for my Social Norm Violation. When most people think of Christmas, elaborate gifts, Santa Claus, and Christmas Trees come to mind. However, is the real meaning of Christmas not the birth of Jesus Christ' Therefore should we not celebrate a birthday instead of greeting card and shopping mall holiday' I spent Thanksgiving break doing my Christmas shopping. I bought everyone a present in celebration of Christ’s birthday. However, instead of wrapping the gifts in the poinsettia-covered red and gold paper or the green and red plaid wrapping paper, I went to the local Wal-Mart and bought brightly colored birthday paper. I then proceeded to wrap each of my eleven gifts in this atrociously tacky garb complete with decorative bows and ribbons and placed them under our precisely decorated and perfectly matching silver, gold and purple (pomegranate as my mother called it) Christmas Tree. The first person to experience my violation was my mother. To begin with, she is very straight and narrow and the epitome of a conventionalist. She already thinks I’m christmas, birthday, paper, family, gifts, just, mother, instead, social, celebrating, wrapping, wrapped, traditional, think, people, holidays, feel, couldn’t, about, way, understand, tree, should, said, red, real, out, much, meaning, look, little, jesus, influence, however, help