Baseball Game Watching and Individual's Freedom

It is said that Japanese people have a custom to act as a group rather than individual.

I think it is generally true, and such a group action seems to also apply to the manner to watch professional baseball games.

As can be seen in the above picture, fans' cheers are organized and led by cheer men.  There are also a sort of pep bands, which at least I feel are very noisy.

Do you think Japanese are all enjoying the game as a group that way because of the Japanese' custom of group behavior?

Maybe many fans are in fond of the group style to watch the game, however, there has been a criticism towards the watching manner, saying, for example, that many people are forced to participate in the group cheering and can't concentrate on watching the game.

I think the criticism is very true.  Fans need to stand up, as in the above picture, make sound and rhythm with a bullhorn, and call out, all of which are led by cheer men.

Understanding that the group cheering is also fun, I still believe that not small number of fans would like to watch the game in their own ways.

However, most Japanese seem just to follow the way many others are doing without arguing.  I think those calm minority people regard this kind of thing as trivial and not worth arguing.  They might also think not complaining is a discreet adult's manner.

Would it be a great leap of discussion to connect the above baseball game watching matter to individual's freedom?
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