If you go with the mainstream you may lose your own identity. I still recall something I heard professor Mou Tzung-san say once: "A people must have its own aesthetics. If not, then it is doomed."
我上牟宗三老師的課時很記得一句話：「一個民族一定要有它自己的美學，若是沒有，這民族就會滅亡。」