Sunday, September 22, 2013

Transcends Culture

The Self-Actualizer may be categorized into a culture, but do not belong to the culture.  They get pleasure from their autonomy and resist enculturation. They do not subscribe to social pressure to be feel they belong or fit-in.  They are free spirited and do not conform to social conventions. 
"Self-Actualizers fall well within the limits of apparent conventionality in choice of clothes, of language, of food, of ways of doing things within culture. And yet they are not really conventional, certainly not fashionable or smart or chic.  These people accept most states of affairs that they consider unimportant or unchangeable or not of primary concern to them as individuals".  -Maslow
They transcend culture because observe and live within the norms of society, but do not allow these laws to govern who they are and what they want to be or do.  They can be seen as rebels, but they are not.  They just are removed, standing apart from society.  If they witness injustice they will exhibit righteous anger.  Since most of the work of the Self-Actualizer is to help improve the state of the world,
 
“...what they settle for is accepting, calm, good-humored everyday effort to improve the culture, usually from within, rather than to reject it wholly and fight it from without.” - Maslow, 

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