2006-08-02 00:29:43 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
Genetics, mostly. As animals evolve, those that happen to have better survival strategies survive more than those that don't. One survival strategy that is common among animals is forming groups. When animals form groups, they tend to have empthy for those in the group and enmity for those outside the group. This provides protection for all of the members in the group and continues the species.
Humans happen to be congretory animals. And, because of our ability for abstract reasoning, we tend to form more abstract groups. These groups can be based on anything from skin color to which football team you like best. One group that is fairly strongly imprinted in us is the family. However, we also abstract that to circles of friends, neighborhoods, countries, and perhaps the whole of humanity.
In these modern times, this has been a help and a hindrance to us. It is a help when the groups formed allow us to see things through other's eyes. We see them as one of us, and we can empathize with them. It has hurt us when we form groups on superficial features, such as skin color, and then build enmity towards those with superficial differences.
The more one realizes that humanity is all part of one big group, the more we will realize that the Earth is one big island and we have to all figure out how to get along on it.
2006-08-02 00:47:56 · answer #1 · answered by nondescript 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well, that first guy got 2 of 3. I am a pretty big guy anyway, and 5 months after I quit smoking I was getting as big as an island. (Ask Monitorhead about this. He adopted the Dyson part on his name because he was sucking up all the food he saw, and now he has a camel hump of his own, I suspect.) I have at least lost some of my shoreline, almost 7 months later.
2006-08-02 01:26:31 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Collective Consciousness.
2006-08-02 00:41:23 · answer #3 · answered by googlywotsit 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-12-10 19:56:20 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In a way we humans are like herd animals. We thrive on company. They give us solace, protection, help and last but not least , love, in more or less varying degrees.
There are always the loners out there, who prefer it that way.
Loneliness is a terrible thing. Without friends, family or loved ones around us, we often tend to wither and die. Literally.
2006-08-02 03:28:15 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Fate. From the beginning, we ARE together, in one body, one form. Though we are split into a few billion parts, we are still interconnected by the energy created when we split. Understand?
2006-08-02 00:58:15 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Social instinct.
2006-08-02 00:46:31 · answer #7 · answered by nkmy83@yahoo.com 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
42, glue, I'm like three islands (not really a question, ya?)
2006-08-02 00:34:52 · answer #8 · answered by f1le_f0und 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
TRUST..it binds us all together..
2006-08-02 00:40:12 · answer #9 · answered by nats 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the fact that we all need each other... also bec we are really all connected.
2006-08-02 00:40:17 · answer #10 · answered by I am your weakness! 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋