Other is similar - ressemble?

To say that the other is similar to me, doesn't it require that he resembles to me, or does it involve other parameters?

First, it would seem useful to ask ourselves what do the words "similar" and "ressemble" mean. Well their roots are identical, they both come from the Latin "similare" or "similis" that means: "to present such appearance, to seem/to look like...". This definition shows us that similar and resemble are tightly linked.

How does the fact of considering the other like a similar person requires that he resembles to me?

When a child is born, he is virgin of all culture, or of all influence of the exterior world. Little by little, he will build an identity peculiar to himself, and this in order to become integrated and to evolve in a social group that we'll call society. This society possesses a serie of parameters of laws, but also of defined territories, commonly acknowledged by all its

Let's take, as a reflection base, a very representative historical example: the regime of the 3rd Reich in Germany between 1940 and 1945. That regime founded and developed itself around a leading idea: the concept of the Aryan race. This concept starts from a simple idea: the idea that humanity would be divided in different classes of different quality; in other words, certain races would be superior to others and the superior races could only find their salvation through the elimination or enslavement of the inferior races.

If the need of resemblances is indispensable to the elaboration of oneself, the need of differences is as well.

That way, certain German scientists elaborated grids of physiological classification that corresponded to particular types. The Aryan type, tall blond with blue eyes, became the absolute reference of what they had to be, and the Jew became the absolute reference of what they shouldn't be. From there on, millions of Jews were massively and arbitrarily lead to death.

When parents decide to have a child, the first thing that they will give him, before even knowing if it'll be a boy or a girl, is a name. That name is the first element of distinction that an individual owns when he comes to the world, when he is born. Thanks to that name, the individual will not only be a simple element among a mass, a crowd, but a unique, a singular being. What will make a human being's particularity to be a human being, is his conscience of himse

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