Why does man urges to be unique? This urge to be unique can be attributed to many factors. It is an inherent human nature to be jealous of someone’s success and has a constant urge to emulate him. They want to be unique to bring out the peculiarity in them. They want to reveal their attitude by adopting a particular dress code or something related to personality. They expect people to appreciate them and also incorporate their style in their lives. Political leaders usually do that with regard to their dress code. For example the president of Fiji still sticks to primitive style of wrapping a piece of cloth to cover his lower half to show to the world that he is a proud Fijian and the contemporary fashions cannot deter him from his age old custom. But this stubbornness of his creates a divide between him and a non-Fijians thus seeds of enmity are sowed. So this raises a question on the extent of the urge of a man to be unique.
This uniqueness could also be related someone’s creativity. The more the unique the more original it is and thus more the appreciation someone receives. But on the other hand this urge to be unique can also lead to an idea completely absurd and it will be inane to go ahead with this idea just for sake of its uniqueness.
A man of caliber, e.g. - a scientist or a rich man, wants to be unique because he wants himself to be easily indentified in a crowd. This sense of show off creates in him a pride that he is a cut above the rest.
Thus this urge to be unique presents a dichotomy between genuineness and being pseudo unique!
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ramaraju 07.31.06 at 10:50 am
I guess man is intrinsicaaly at a disadvantage in this department.Putting it straight a major difference between man and animals is desire( do not count lust which is a biological arrangement made by god ) but the rest of all desires.In one word human civilisation is whatever it is because of desire.And yes i agree he also has the capacity to realise it . But like any implementable idea in large numbers,it needs a management solution. Religion is single biggest solution ever offered for desire management. Besides that ofcourse religion defined a way of life (animals have an intrinsic programming done) when living together in many forms of desire is just unavoidable.
So driven by desire of varied forms man will compete and as long as he competes the need to be unique will be there.
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