Personal Essay: What Makes Us Who We Are

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What make us who we are Like we know, all humans are different in many ways, we are the most complex and perfect systems in the world, but why we are differents and why we have differents characteristics than others is based in the culture, self-knowledge, genetic and environment. Culture is the single most powerful influence on how we perceive the world and everything in it. Anyone who does not share in our culture will always appear odd and they will think the same of us. Every society has a culture that carries it rules. These rules are codes of conduct which is learn continuously through out life. Breaking these rules will normally result in social rejection and isolation, a good example of this is catholic fathers who decide to get…show more content…
Likewise, the idea of looking into ones self may lead to depression and poor self esteem because a person may not like what they see only in certain occasions. I believe that a combination of both body and mind is most essential to self identity because neither can work without the other. Meaning that, to make decisions that shape and determine who we are, we use our brain to come up with an idea so that the body is able to make the idea a reality. Without the body the self is not heard. Similarly, without a brain or soul our body is useless. In part, I know myself because of my ability to think and take action based on thought, but still the contradictions that the mind, body, and environment encounter make my decisions and actions biased. Therefore, I do not and could not achieve a hundred percent self knowledge. I could not truly know myself because I am limited by my knowledge and/or aspirations and what my body could actually do, my actions are affected by people and my surroundings, and because I will continue to learn and change opinions based on experience and

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