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Class, culture, and gender impact our capacity for understanding others and ourselves because by learning and observing others you will learn about a part of you that you may not have known. All of these things contribute to our identity. A person may be born into a poor or wealthy family, and with this said they may perceive the world differently than others. Everyone comes from differently cultural backgrounds with different views on things that impact their way of life, we learn form people within our cultures to better understand where we came from.

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I think by understanding others it helps her understand parts of ourselves that we may not have known. We learn about others by observing their behaviors and evaluating different aspects of the person. We may get a better understand of a part of us from someone else, such as, a culture you may be part of. You learn about different features you got from your ancestors and things that make you, you.

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By putting ourselves in other's positions, we can be more understanding. This leads to us being a better person overall that cares for the people around them. We can be more openminded and compare others and their actions to how we act. This can make us more humble and inevitably be a better person.

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All of these factors impact how we understand others and ourselves as all of this determines most of our ideals and beliefs, especially with culture and social class. it determines how own minded we are about certain topics and how much we understand about them, as someone who is wealthy will most likely never understand the struggles of someone ion poverty.

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An educated understanding of class, culture, and gender can help us to understand our many similarities and differences between each other and the knowledge of knowing more than one version of a story can help keep us from falling under the examples of a single story narrative and keep us from assuming or making stereotypes about a person.

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Understanding others helps you understand yourself. Learning how to relate to someone else's experiences can be a useful tool that can help you be more empathetic when interacting with someone who might have had different life experiences than your own.

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I think the more we understand our own identity, the more self-reassured we become. We become confident in ourselves and hold ourselves to the standard we deserve.

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Understanding others helps us understand ourselves mainly though common interests and upbringing. Understanding our family helps us figure out who we are, as our ideals are going to most likely be inherited from them, and understanding our friends helps us grasp a further concept of who we are and their expectations given to us by them, as if we like their precense there must be a reason why and understanding up helps us understand ourselves.

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Especially in modern society, people have a difficult time understanding foreign cultures and differing classes and genders. With this social strain, society has failed to develop an understanding between cultures, genders, and classes. Worldly knowledge is essential for understanding others and ourselves.- Alicia Kang

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In The Muppets the theme of identity as to whether characters are muppets or men is explored through song.

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Understanding of your own identity can lead to self-assurance and inner strength which can help in utilizing existing power more effectively.

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Getting to know yourself more fully is not just an ego trip. Learning how to better put yourself in other people's shoes is a useful social skill in everyday life that could also be important in promoting more cross-cultural understanding in society. Learning about yourself allows you to be empathetic towards others.

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understanding our identity helps us further grasp the concept of our family and upbringing, understand the struggles they went through, the expectations given to us, understand ourselves and how we think, what we desire. By grasping our identity, we get to know who we are and why, we get the power to choose our own road rather than blindly following the path given to us.

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I think understanding others helps us understand ourselves better. I think seeing how others act around us make us evaluate ourselves more because we can see that we don't like the way someone is doing something or acting, it reflects back on us to see if we do those same things and it makes us want to change ourselves, or vice versa and see the good traits in people and we want to add that to ourselves. We use outside views and understanding for our own perception.

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By understanding class, culture, and gender, we are able to define what others are like and better ourselves by learning from their positive traits as well as their flaws.

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Class, culture, and gender impact our capacity for understanding others and ourselves because a lot of these identities are not chosen, they are received. Therefore, they provide a basis and a foundation for how one can understand the world around them. For example, if you are born into a wealthy family, your worldview lens will probably differ than someone born into a different financial situation.

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When understanding and accepting our different identities, we become more powerful and confident. You understand how you are as a person and be able to relate to others. As our identities become more apparent, we become more confident and lead a more powerful life. We influence the people around us, just by utilizing our identities to the max.

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Understanding your identity allows you to acquire a sense of power in the comfort and assurance of your self-reflection. When we know who we are, we are able to be more decisive, confident, and assertive in how we interact with the world around us.

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Physically seeing other people act in real-time can allow us to make inferences about how we must appear to others. We may notice other peoples' mistakes and weaknesses when we see their actions. This can cause us to self-reflect and consider our own strengths and weaknesses.

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By understanding others you can use introspection and compare what they do to yourself. Through this introspection you can find out about new traits of yourself.

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Class, culture, and gender can cause people to go through different life experiences, making people's identity to change and differ. It allows people to understand other people that have gone through similar experiences.

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Sometimes understanding others can help us to understand ourselves because we are in denial about our true state. Examples of this can be found frequently in YA novels which utilize a character in secondary, mirrored, plotline to illustrate the main characters true situation, be it a bad relationship, or a need for them to act on their beliefs.

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Understanding our identity allows us to under stand others. The whole process of finding one's identity could even take a life. In effect, by knowing our inner identity along with beliefs, we are able to form connections with people in society. Identity also gives us confidence. The discovery of an identity boosts our social skills.- Alicia Kang

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The intersections of our class, culture, and gender and the power associated with them under hierarchical structures (capitalism, patriarchy, colonialism, etc) impact how we understand ourselves in that we are able to anticipate our treatment in the world and distinguish our experiences. It allows us to understand others of similar marginalization because we are able to relate to them and empathize based on our own parallel experiences.

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By understanding others and their actions, we are able to develop a norm of what people are like. Because a certain part of us wants to fit in, this norm that is created in our mind plays a role in what/who we are.

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Understanding ourselves allows us to know where our strengths lie. We can use this information to further our positions in life. Knowing our interests may drive our idea of what career we might like, for instance. Knowing our weaknesses can help us improve them by trying to be better about them each day.

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Understanding others helps us understand ourselves because we gain a new perspective. By putting yourself in someone else's shoes, you can possibly see your identity from another point of view, and this can give yourself a new angle for evaluating and understanding yourself from someone with different values and identities than you.

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If we understand the class, culture, and gender of others around us we can greater understand them instead of making assumptions.

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Understanding others helps us understand ourselves in millions of aspects. A major one (imo) would be knowing their typical desires, needs, issues, and goals and generally who they are so when you see this person struggling, you have this ideal understanding of what you can do to help them and knowing what you can do helps evaluate the kind of person you are. Hopefully everybody can show compassion and giving a helping hand to those in need (and if not maybe you're just an awful person or can't understand human emotion). Those who consistently help other people experience less depression, greater calm, fewer pains and better health.

oh 🤬 I wrote a lot and I think I repeated myself like 5 times.