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George Herbert Mead says..
“Selves can exist only in definite relations to other selves. No hard-and-fast line can be drawn between our selves and the selves of others, because our own selves exist and enter as such into our experience also. The individual possesses a self only in relation to the selves of other members of his social group; and the structure of his self expresses or reflects the general behavior pattern of this social group to which he belongs; just as does the structure of the self of every other individual belonging to this social group.”
(via sociolab)