My family has played a huge role in my behaviour and beliefs, as I have adopted these traits and my religion from what they have taught me. They have shown me lifes morals, and become people I can openly talk to. My family shows me respect, so I have learnt to show it back. With my father moving out at a crucial time in my life, my relationship with him has been withering slowly to the point where he has no influence over me and I have little respect for him. This is due to the fact that he does not respect me and my decisions now that I am older when he should be. This is an example of how much of an effect respect has in the family. This relationship with my father has given me a goal for when I settle down in a family, as he has shown me what not to do. The family is where people should fit in, as most it is where most will primarily learn manners and behaviours for when people decide to make a family of their own. A lack of family means a lack of sociological support in growing up to raise a …show more content…
To cut himself off in thought from all his relationships of race, and country, and citizenship -- to get rid of all those interests, prejudices, likings, superstitions, generated in him by the life of his own society and his own time -- to look on all the changes societies have undergone and are undergoing, without reference to nationality, or creed, or personal welfare; is what the average man cannot do at all, and what the exceptional man can do very