Question #2

The five cultural barriers to creativity are a requirement for conformity, an expectation of practicality and efficiency, particular arenas for competition or cooperation, an expectation of politeness and following rules for social order, and a trust in the power of reason and logic (Harris & Sherblom, 2008). I believe that these barriers would restrict a small group from being creative in many different ways. It would allow them to only confine to the “norm” and not the uniqueness of their group. As the saying goes, “hopping into the wagon” means that a certain group or person is following the crowd and not being creative in their perspective. For example, the fraternity I’m in currently, started off as a normal fraternity. All we did was party and go out every night. But we wanted to create a different kind of organization that didn’t follow the stereotype, so we created a fraternity towards community service. We are proud to say that this new change has helped our moral because there are few fraternities that dedicate themselves to helping the community.