Is the existence of social or cultural constraints incompatible with individuality?

Question

Is the existence of social or cultural constraints incompatible with individuality? What is the possible importance of nonconformist behavior in a culture?

Answer 1

No I don't think so. We can express our indivduality better in the ways that matter when we agree to some basic rules that help us get along in society.

Answer 2

Every society honors its live conformist and dead troblemakers. The non-conformists get into all kinds of controversies due to their radical thinking, but when such thinking produces good results their worth is realized but mostly post humously. Social and cultural constraints have always been and shall always be incompatible with individuality, each individual is born intelligent but society and culture tunes that individual to conform to the norms of social and culture followed in a nation, and individuality dies an untimely death. Those who strive to retain their individuality become super successful and then they tend to conform to the social and cultural norms of the society that has helped them make their billions, it is an endless cycle.

Answer 3

Was there ever such a thing as true individuality?  Do you make your own clothes?  No, you buy what someone else has made for you to fit your sense of self.  We started out as tribes, sharing the same culture and we try to distance ourselves from where we came from to find our identity.  but you ultimately identify with someone/something else in your new surroundings.  What is noncomformist-if you don't conform to one set of morals or constraints then aren't you conforming to another set of constraints?