Many people ask the questions "are we social Beings"? Some find it more relaxing to keep to their selves while others feel comfortable in a more social setting among their peers. This is important because it dictates how we act around people. If someone likes to be alone and keep to his or herself, then they will more then likely have questionable people skills, where as someone who loves to have people around them, will most likely be very good with working with people or just interacting with them.
Rene Descartes believed that "we ourselves exist", and are independent from others. Descartes' way of thinking about the individual is the bases of the western way of thinking about ones self. Steffen Carlshamme from Stockholm University explains that an individual's identity is based on the culture that that individuals is a member of. Culture is very important to ones identity, that's why a people can be destroyed if you destroy their culture. Examples of this are the Aztecs and the......
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