During certain conventions / events that I participated during my career, I was routinely mistaken for being someone's assistant. (hays.ca)
Slow West is a clipped, super-economical neo-Western — or rather a meta - Western musing on certain conventions of the genre that refuses to die but continues to mutate, these days usually into more or less ironic forms. (filmcomment.com)
I think some people (especially in the South) have a sense of pride in defying certain conventions if they associate them with people they don't like. (religion.blogs.cnn.com)