Explain further "to understand mankind is to study man".

Question

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Answer 1

Just look in the mirror!

Answer 2

One small step/ one giant leap.  It says that we are all alike. Primitive the same as modern, light skin the same as dark skin. Just take a cutout of a person and insert different backgrounds of time and culture. We all can share in the shame and glory of each other.

Answer 3

To understand the overall actions of man you should look at a single individual, we are born with our needs, as we grow older we develop prejudices or the like as we gain understanding of the world and start to see it from a perspective.

Example I was born into a upper-middle class British family, thus I think the likes of Ned's are vermin, though they too are people like I am on second thought, however it's ingrained on me.

As we grow older we also develop interests and perhaps even aspirations, these too lead us into our later lives and dictate what we do with our time.

Example again I am interested in computer games and machines, thus i'm in a software development course in a college in fife.

On the broader perspective looking at mankind we can see this kind of thing appearing on a much grander scale.

America needs oil to survive, thus it as a larger entity has hunted down counties which have oil and have liberated them.

Hitler grew to hate the jewish to a passion during WW1 so when he became a world leader he was able to use his charisma to inspire the same hate in his people.

Finally we can look at China's latest work of art the olympic stadium, it had in it's interest to show off during the contests by having a grand stadium so it made a building to show this off.