  This is in stark contrast with views that see modesty rooted in attitudes that apply to everyone, like egalitarian accounts. Modesty on this view is not about seeing some features of the world that apply to everyone, but instead seeing how different norms apply to self-references. What explains modesty’s self-attribution strangeness on this view is a more general difference in self-regarding attitudes; Maes (2004, 490ff.) also discusses, for example, gift-giving and receiving compliments in this way too.