1) An individualist is considered to be someone with personality and character, someone who is not easily intimidated by social pressure or customs, someone with a personal opinion and a singular view of the world. Because modern society finds it important that people think independently, decide autonomously and take personal initiatives, the concept of individualism has acquired a positive connotation. However, individualism is also linked with the tendency to withdraw from social life and turn in …showed first 75 words of 1264 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1264 total…their children in what's right, depends profoundly on the health and the effective functioning of the institutions that shape them. 20) Individualism in this sense becomes something closer to isolationism, the desire to be entirely self-sufficient as a country and ignore events elsewhere in the world. 21) The answer is to work on making our institutions better. 22) Religion is integral comprehensive vision of ourselves in relation to what we recognize as the basic conditions of our existence.