On Infividualism
Excerpts taken from an essay I wrote on my blog : Attraction of the Occident
...And individualism is something that so many local people do not seem to have enough of. Its always being touted as a negative export of occidental culture. I beg to differ. Individualism is about finding yourself, and its about being independent. If you never find yourself, how can you ever be secure enough to be able to take care of someone else. If you never understand yourself, how can you understand someone else? And without individualism, you can never be confident. And thats something I hate deeply in a lot of local men. Insecure people are annoying and I can never respect them. But the worst are the sort that hide their lack of self-confidence under a veneer of arrogance. Local women dont show it (the arrogance) because its a fact that females are simply more accommodating to correction....
...Am I sold of to the culture of the west? Who isnt. Its about unrestraint, it idolizes personal uniqueness, its human. Using the concept of individualism: Its often taken out of context. To me, it means realizing individual worth, and there is a HUGE difference between that and just plain selfishness. If youve truly understood your worth, youll be able to understand the worth of another human being, and thats why the most cruel societies are the ones in which the human spirit is suppressed (Why George Bush can lead the US into such extreme cruelty while 50% of his nation stand up for the true meaning of freedom is still a puzzle to me)....
xoxox
Excerpts taken from an essay I wrote on my blog : Attraction of the Occident
...And individualism is something that so many local people do not seem to have enough of. Its always being touted as a negative export of occidental culture. I beg to differ. Individualism is about finding yourself, and its about being independent. If you never find yourself, how can you ever be secure enough to be able to take care of someone else. If you never understand yourself, how can you understand someone else? And without individualism, you can never be confident. And thats something I hate deeply in a lot of local men. Insecure people are annoying and I can never respect them. But the worst are the sort that hide their lack of self-confidence under a veneer of arrogance. Local women dont show it (the arrogance) because its a fact that females are simply more accommodating to correction....
...Am I sold of to the culture of the west? Who isnt. Its about unrestraint, it idolizes personal uniqueness, its human. Using the concept of individualism: Its often taken out of context. To me, it means realizing individual worth, and there is a HUGE difference between that and just plain selfishness. If youve truly understood your worth, youll be able to understand the worth of another human being, and thats why the most cruel societies are the ones in which the human spirit is suppressed (Why George Bush can lead the US into such extreme cruelty while 50% of his nation stand up for the true meaning of freedom is still a puzzle to me)....
xoxox