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Originally Posted by DonQuigleone
For most of human history, people had no choice about who they hung out with. You either stuck your tribe, or you died out in the wilderness.
Though people did occasionally switch tribes, it was not an easy thing to do.
Later people spent all their lives in the same village, and didn't have much choice about which village they ended up in (in fact, serfs were tied to the land by law and couldn't move even if they wanted to!)
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True, they had much less choice who they hung out with, but the lifestyle was so different. You grow up with your fellow tribesmen, do everything with them, work together to survive, and you continue to live your adult life with them - and as a result are likely to form strong bonds. Whereas in modern life, things are quite different. I guess what I'm trying to say is, the enviroment in which you socialise with people will have an effect on the type of relationships you form. In the modern working enviroment, there is always a degree of competiveness/stress/hierarchy which is associated with every interaction. I personally find this very draining pscyhologically, and have little left for family/friends and girlfriends the more I have to work.