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The question of relation between the self and the surroundings can be a nightmarish one. Existentialists like Kierkegaard and Nietzsche have noted the tensions between an individual’s mind and the world at large. Much like Ralph Waldo Emerson’s quote, in the process of individuation a person cannot remember the sources “...even so they have made him,” but the role of social positioning of the individual cannot be downplayed. These ideas are as much political, as personally affecting. Consequently, the issues of body, masculinity, and religion (society) always had a form of control over me, be it through the global media I consumed, or the traditions passed through the family. This necessitated the study of unease between an individual and the society which does exist, even if we take the implicit or explicit self-esteem concept in the view (Spalding and Hardin, 1999, p. 1). In today’s globalized world, combined with the prowess of information technology, the challenge that looms, is th...