what are the elements that make group ritual behavior embarrassing vs fun or creepy and threatening vs harmless and ignorable?
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big public school spirit rallies were alienating but also felt too rote/ like watching an alien culture for me to experience strong aversion
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but any time people got into 'yale spirit' or spoke reverentially about it or cared about yale traditions i wanted to run to the hills
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for sure. high school had a high number of allies in eye-rolling.

