When it comes to personal dependency, its not only Americans that don't want to live alone. We depend on friends for support and parents for food and shelter. Its a natural instinct of nurture that just about every person is born with. We've been brought up to believe that mentally, these aspects in life are necessary to live happy and healthy. We have also been warned about these attachments to others and how easily we can be betrayed or abused by the ones we hold close to us. People have become fearful of getting hurt whether by a friend, family member, or a loved one. I think a natural tendency for a good handful of people is to build this wall around them and fend for themselves- trust no one and you don't get hurt. Personally, I go with the building up a wall system myself, with different reasoning for being cautious of friends and being careful of finding a loved one. But thats a whole different topic.
The fact that as humans we are naturally drawn to others for nurture, I think, has nothing to do with living in a free world as Americans. The independence we have built for ourselves as a country is purely to live in a well contained lifestyle. The system of majority rules is probably the most harmonic way we can live. Its as a whole that we are independent from a ruler and are able to live the way we believe is just.
There isn't really a relation between human dependency and living in the independence of America because they are on completely different fields.
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Anita - you have me intrigued, but I am not sure I understand what you are saying. I think that we naturally need other people, but our culture (Western culture) teaches us that it is weak to put your needs into other people. Is this what you are saying?
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