Diandra Maria Pânișoară
Regarding society’s way of forming one’s character, a research from SAGE (Green, Deschamps & Páez, 2005) explains that in regions such as North America and in European cultures the focus is mainly on individualist values, which differ from those found in cultures across South America, Asia and Africa. The research continues to explain how we should view this ideology according to the population. Where the main focus is on individualism people view success and failure as their responsibility. In contrast, where collectivism prevails, even the gain of one individual is viewed in relation to others. This makes implacable differences in the mentality of citizens around the world. As evolved human beings it stays in our nature to chase a sense of comfort that goes beyond subsistence. A research at National Library of Medicine explained that brain circuits that have the responsibility of providing individual emotional experiences are very plastic and easy manipulated. The article (Davidson, 2014) also stated how important individuality is in context of a person’s emotions. This analogy makes us understand the fact that the common ground is our unique way of understanding objective experiences — a fact that can separate us. Another research published in National Library of Medicine ( Chiao et al 2009 ) shows us an example in the effect of individualism on our brains. It was discovered that values of individualism and collectivism have a role in the activation of medial prefrontal cortex (MPFC). In both cases this neuronal activity is beneficial for self-knowledge. The main difference that the study collected is that in bilateral parahippocampal gyri during general and contextual implications there is more activity in the right superior frontal gyrus during comprehension of self in individualists than in collectivists. Is fundamentally important to understand the complexity of human dynamics and their impact on the human brain. If we see all ideologies as conditions that are given either by states and decisions people make in order to shape the individual — profoundly impacting our health and functioning — we would have a more stoic, objective point of view. A
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