My understanding of the human species.

A human is a blank slate apon birth. its the conditions that were born in that create who we are. This is why our eras differe through time. Our species evolves with every generation born. We multiply, divide and split into cultures. We then create difference as the next generation of human learns in thier current environment.

As individuals we are a collection of cells and bacteria, our unity and way of doing things within our nations are referred to as a culture. A number of humans clumped together become a nation. An entity itself.

In the same way we are required to take nutrients from our environment to survive, perhaps our nations are required to take resources from other nations to survive.

As cultures intertwine there creates conflict or infection that challenges the ideologies of the culture wich creates change, minor or radical dependending on thier influence. These changes are either accepted or resisted in the petri dish of this planet we have labeled as humanity.

When some die, they are replaced by others and the national identity and cultural beliefs are trained into the next generation keeping them afloat for longer than a single body can store information.

So what is an individual human? If not just constituent part of a nation, a cell in a society built by those before us that we are bred to be apart of?