some of the required considerations, such as placing a ban on all sexual activity, but such societies have not lasted. A society has an existence of its own, in addition to being essential to the members. Families and language are two things that are common to all societies, and they may be taken for granted and their critical nature overlooked (Lidz, 1968, p. 16).
Basically, the personality includes such factors as character traits, the self and concepts of self, and basic attitudes. These things are determined by physical and mental growth as affected by many of the factors discussed above. It is certain that the social standing and the racial standing of the individual are part of this influence. Indeed, racial background has long been a determinant of social standing throughout the world, though the actual form differs from nation to nation and even locality to locality. The Black in the South of the United States today is in a different position than the Black in the North--if not in kind, in degree. At any rate, the historical and mor
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