I think most people are interested in our origins; once we understand, it might be easier to become the people we'd like to be. Or, better, become the people we think we already are.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I think we all want to know where we came from and how we fit into the world, but some of us need to know how it all works in great detail.
Getting to know where we come from is a really profound way of getting to look at who we are.
I believe that we can, in a deliberate way, articulate the kind of people we want to become. We can articulate the culture that we would want to exist in our family, and you can then, as the rest of life happens to you, you can utilize those things to help you become the kind of person you want to be.
For the first time in human evolution, the individual life is long enough, and the cultural transformation swift enough, that the individual mind is now a constituent player in the global transformation of human culture.
OUR history begins before we are born. We represent the hereditary influences of our race, and our ancestors virtually live in us.
I come from a country and also a continent whose identity is in the making. We're a very young culture, and I think that things are not yet crystallised.
I do not wish to hide my origins, nor do I seek to make it a subject of conversation. I am what I am.
On some level, we as human beings can be who we want to be.
I believe that we can, in a deliberate way, articulate the kind of people we want to become.
I've always been really interested in how people's identities are shaped by where they come from and how they want to get away from where they come from.
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