The article discusses the evolutionary perspective on human belonging and attachment. While it's commonly accepted that humans have an innate impulse to belong to groups due to survival advantages, this view oversimplifies our social behaviors. It emphasizes that newborns are born unaffiliated and devoid of social identities like religion or nationality. The true understanding of belonging is a learned behavior, not an instinct. As children grow and develop language skills, they begin to form attachments and learn about their social environment, indicating that our social affiliations are developed over time rather than occurring naturally at birth.
We have an innate need to attach to caregivers; however, anything beyond that initial impulse to attach must be taught.
Most considerations of the attachment impulse conflate it with the desire to belong, but they are not inherently the same.
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