Positive alternatives 2

One traditional problem causing factor is our definition of our self. If we have a narrow idea of our self we are likely to see ourself as too distinct from others. Maybe this problem will be smaller as time goes by.

The narrow definition of the self was natural in a static social situation where individuals lived more or less in the same village all life. 

That is not bad, but in the modern village information and impulses from all over the world enter.

It gets more obvious that we are interdependent with everybody and everything else. The more we see and learn, the more we see this interdpendence.

Then it gets more natural to define ourselves as part of this bigger community.

If we have this very wide idea of ourselves, we see how we can forward our own interests by forwarding the interests of all the  others.