I think culturally there are a couple of different ways to express equality in western society. In France when they had the revolution they tried to express social equality by everyone eating the same bread, wearing the same clothes etc. You still see this in their culture. In England equality is expressed via personal freedom which then becomes personal eccentricity. This is where you get the culture of people shoving their identity in your face, dressing crazy, tattoos all over, actively looking to be as different to the norm as possible. So I guess if you prefer the former culture you have to move to a place which has it and away from the latter. I don't think you can or should really try to change the one you are living in (not least because I think the personal freedom one has many advantages even if it's annoying).