"The typical Palmeran school masters in behaviorism. Since they enter Secondary School (Jr. High and High School), school uniforms are used. In this case the Chinese-style Young Pioneer getup. However, the uniform doesn't do anything special. There are no visible signs for newcomers or upperclassmen.
However, here's the odd difference between other uniforms we know of. There is no fancy seal like in some other countries' schools, there's a number. The number indicates the public school because the schools have numbers and are only referred to as such. It saves time. And here's what differentiates them: there's a specific form of individualization. An ID and name tag is used every day that is acquired at the beginning of the year.
Why such seemingly insignificant little details? The first part hints them as equals in a hierarchy, it contextualizes their roles. The second individualizes them. This was done based on experiments made by Zimbardo. If managed correctly, it decreases schoolyard aggression by provoking self-awareness and guilt should antisocial conduct occur. Odds are bullying will never be gone at a 100% but this is a subtle measure. No awareness talks, no nothing. We will observe and see how things progress. And then maybe there will be school-ground awareness education and other such...how do you say it...santurronería, eh, gazomoñería...Prudery! That's it. I personally believe bullying to be an unfortunate but inevitable side effect of personalities clashing, at most we can only reduce it to relative harmlessness.
Now, what do you think your schools do? I understand you're one of the most individualist peoples in the world, but frankly...just accept we waste a little bit more on education than you do and people can generally afford to do so. We are a Representative Republic; I'm sure that people would complain about education costs if they were high but nobody or few have. But, to say we oppress people, that we take away the cognitive experiences? That we suppress people and treat them as tabula rasa? Oh, no. That's dreadfully horrifying. The uniforms only contextualize their role. Their outcome is based on their merit as students.
You think your country has no such thing? In your country people come and go to school with the clothing they like, they chatter on about trivialities related to social status in a school environment. They want to be oh so unique but they all also must follow trends, where's the uniqueness now? And worse, it creates another brand of conformity where everyone looks at themselves in the mirror. This brand of conformity contextualizes social harmony for a supposedly shared goal for all properly motivated students. And by conformity do note that I mean the acceptance of roles and norms...something that occurs in all functional societies. We're simply more interconnected from individual to individual, no hard feelings. But feel free to ask more questions."
-A superintendent and a tourist, most probably from the US who asked about school uniforms
The first odd tourist strawman thing.
