The liberation from useless habits is glorius. Those who advocate or demand others to adopt their habits be it fashion, face paint or nose rings are an annoying breed.

"Boy the doctors and schools were really upset when we deformed our infant son's skull with cranial binding so we stopped halfway through.
Young Tut now says he is glad we did."
Quote Pharoh Akenaton. :^]

Habits and wierd traditions are invisible to most of us