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Are We Social Beings?: Identity and Culture
"Are We Social Beings?" looks at the relationship between personality and culture while contrasting the atomistic and societal views of the self represented by Descartes and Hegel. Using the endangered culture of the Laplanders in Sweden as the basi...
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American Heritage: Vast Wilderness Kindles Individualism and Self-determination
America's vast wilderness and its distance from the old world gave settlers far more liberty, equality, and self governance that they could have imagined. Social class played less of a role than in their home countries. This and the fact that ordina...