It is primarily through our identification with social groups that we define ourselves.
It is fairly clear that we are social animals, which naturally belong to this kind of group or that. But how do we define us? Either identification with social groups or other ways? In reality, everybody experiences different social groups in his life, and so he defines himself from diverse perspectives. Importantly, it is wise for us to define ourselves in a complete sphere, both social groups and individual uniqueness, together with the changeability and mutability of the self.
We define ourselves through our identification with social groups because we seek for a feeling of belonging and identity. As a child, we play with those with shared interests, and gradually growing, we enter into schools, forming the groups of study, in which we discuss problems, communicate with each other about how to improve the performance of learning. After stepping into the society, we hunt for job in which we're engaged for a team in a department of a company. In the process, we can get a clear understanding of ourselves by the recognition of others, the affirmation of the team——Who am I? What can I do? What's the standard of my behavior? How do I discern things happened in the world? Only in this way can we explicitly know our role in the groups in order to attain individual or team's goals. In short, we always stay with those who have the same belief, religion, values system, and the like, either in life or in work.
However, our identification with social groups is not equal to the real self: after all, everybody is unique, just as no leaves are exactly the same in the world. There are two major reasons. One is that everyone is multidimensional, another is that everybody exhibits different self in different environments.
Everybody has another self, far from what he/she shows on the surface, which really is distinctive from others. In family, siblings have different temperaments, hobbies, talents, values, beliefs; in school, a student may participate in diverse interest classes or clubs, in which he is cultivated to find his multiple talents; in society, one will pursue for this sort of occupation and that in this way he can discover his potential capabilities, all of which beneficial for him to find the real self. Even if in one team, the members have the difference in cooperation, communication, ability in doing the same work, so one's real self cannot be fully reflected by the performance of a group. One may be expert in a job, but not skilled at another, only by finding his own distinction can he exert his complete potentiality. Moreover, in specific situation, another self, which one has not realized self before, emerges. For instance, faced with the different difficulties, one may have various attitudes: sometimes braveness, sometimes fear, sometimes calmness.
Last but not least, as we change and develop, so does our definition of self. For one thing, with the change of one's experiences like study, life and work, his beliefs, values, capabilities will change greatly, especially the effects of catastrophic incidents. When wealthy man suffers from big disease, he may realize that money is one part of his life, the health and happiness is the key, which will guide his behavior in the future. For another, people are usually self-investment to be a man he desires. For this reason, he defines himself according to the progress he makes, from one stage to another in hierarchical sphere in human society. One man must have views of world in being a leader apart from being an employee.
All in all, it is wise to define ourselves from all-around perspectives, both our identification with social groups and our uniqueness, and the definition of self should change with the development of individuality.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 619, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: What's
...n of the team——Who am I? What can I do? Whats the standard of my behavior? How do I d...
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Line 9, column 113, Rule ID: ONES[1]
Message: Did you mean 'one's'?
Suggestion: one's
...self. For one thing, with the change of ones experiences like study, life and work, ...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, however, if, may, moreover, really, so, after all, apart from, for instance, in short, kind of, sort of, for one thing
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 22.0 19.5258426966 113% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 15.0 12.4196629213 121% => OK
Conjunction : 20.0 14.8657303371 135% => OK
Relative clauses : 17.0 11.3162921348 150% => OK
Pronoun: 65.0 33.0505617978 197% => OK
Preposition: 98.0 58.6224719101 167% => OK
Nominalization: 19.0 12.9106741573 147% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 3144.0 2235.4752809 141% => OK
No of words: 626.0 442.535393258 141% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.02236421725 5.05705443957 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 5.00199880112 4.55969084622 110% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.98019025477 2.79657885939 107% => OK
Unique words: 301.0 215.323595506 140% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.480830670927 0.4932671777 97% => OK
syllable_count: 988.2 704.065955056 140% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 13.0 6.24550561798 208% => Less pronouns wanted as sentence beginning.
Interrogative: 3.0 0.740449438202 405% => OK
Article: 4.0 4.99550561798 80% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 3.10617977528 161% => OK
Conjunction: 6.0 1.77640449438 338% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 13.0 4.38483146067 296% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 30.0 20.2370786517 148% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 23.0359550562 87% => OK
Sentence length SD: 74.424786791 60.3974514979 123% => OK
Chars per sentence: 104.8 118.986275619 88% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.8666666667 23.4991977007 89% => OK
Discourse Markers: 4.1 5.21951772744 79% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.97078651685 121% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 7.80617977528 26% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 13.0 10.2758426966 127% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 5.13820224719 39% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 15.0 4.83258426966 310% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.298316774307 0.243740707755 122% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0926998479447 0.0831039109588 112% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.122595564968 0.0758088955206 162% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.204870835879 0.150359130593 136% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.136380031729 0.0667264976115 204% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.6 14.1392134831 89% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 51.18 48.8420337079 105% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 12.1743820225 91% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.84 12.1639044944 97% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.19 8.38706741573 98% => OK
difficult_words: 141.0 100.480337079 140% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 11.8971910112 88% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 11.2143820225 89% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 Out of 6
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