The Role of Well-Connected People in Adapting to Social Groups

I think it does really depend on the culture because I think we and in the west have this really strong idea that we should have a stable self but in other places you're not supposed to do that at all. These people who are well connected are more normative to the entire group which includes people that they probably don't even know. It is kind of an open question as to whether understanding the norms of the group as a whole means that you're able to better adapt to each group that you're in to shift or whether you're just capturing something that groups everyone together in a sense. Those are still open questions.