Hello everyone! I have enrolled to a university abroad and I noticed something they don’t do in my country of origin — the first time it happened was when we had a lecture online in Zoom, and our professor asked us to turn on our cameras because it feels better to see our faces than black rectangles. I was the only one to do so, and my friend panicked and told me that I have to turn it off, her reasoning was: “It’s either everyone turns their cameras on, or nobody does”. I found it spoopid and brushed it off. Today we were doing a group project, and I was the only member of my group who managed to do a particular task and it took me quite a lot of effort, and my classmate told me that I have to delete it because “It’s either everyone has it done, or we leave it empty”, even though I tried to help everyone else to do this task, and we were not graded for that, it was just an exercise and we were allowed to fail. It made me angry and I still feel like I was treated really unfairly. It’s new to me and I hate it. Is it something cultural? How do I properly and politely explain to these people that it doesn’t hurt them if I do something outstanding?