"The question of identity is often tied to the nature of origins." (6)
This quote is found under the heading, "Exploring Origins," and is intriguing because since the earliest years humans have pondered the question "who am I?" and "what is my purpose in life?" It is interesting that those questions can be so easily tied back to something as simple as "where do we come from?" That is not to say that we are exactly who are ancestors were, but the quote is expanded upon on page 8, when it is explained that "each group of peoples was of course the product and agent of its own history." In other words, where we are headed as a people is in direct relation to where we've been. So in order to look forward, we should all
This quote is found under the heading, "Exploring Origins," and is intriguing because since the earliest years humans have pondered the question "who am I?" and "what is my purpose in life?" It is interesting that those questions can be so easily tied back to something as simple as "where do we come from?" That is not to say that we are exactly who are ancestors were, but the quote is expanded upon on page 8, when it is explained that "each group of peoples was of course the product and agent of its own history." In other words, where we are headed as a people is in direct relation to where we've been. So in order to look forward, we should all