In American, we pride ourselves on the notion of our independence, while we actively seek out the safety of conformity. A contradiction.

Being independent in thought or any other human activity is hard hard work. You have to insist on challenging yourself to grow beyond the limits of who you were yesterday. There is so much we learn about ourselves and the rest of the world each day.

Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else. Margaret Mead

Starting at the beginning of this century, many of us have decided to define ourselves through mechanisms like politics, religions, and race, confining ourselves and our thinking to that of a group. But we are more complex than this.

“Birds of a Feather flock together” But we are not birds

Our growth as a society has everything to do with our exposing ourselves to new cultures and thinking.