Communal Identity
Posted on Tuesday, November 15th, 2005 at 18:52.
Ironically, society types were discussed in both my American Sign Language 3 and Islam class today. There are two extremes in societal classification: communal and individual. The western world has increasingly become hyper-individual. I identify with this transition. I feel as if I live in a culture where family identity has been diminished. It’s not selfishness or progress, it just is. I have friends closer than family. If I didn’t have a genetic/legal tie, I probably wouldn’t associate with some of my family. (Again, not being critical, that’s just the status of the relationships.) And I think that most of the people my age that I know feel this way. Sometimes I think it’s bad. Sometimes I think it’s good. Regardless, I feel loved by those around me.
On a side note, my dad is visiting me in Boston this weekend and I am super super super excited. :-D
Wow, this is probably the first time we’ve agreed completely about things in two consecutive blogs.