Building 1

Building 1

Internal

Ancestor
/ family
pride

You take pride in your family name and/or the accomplishments of long dead relatives
(Or even living close relatives).
You think you are special to have descended from such a glorious past.
Egypt - ancestor

age pride

Boy
preference
pride

pride in having a boy - china, india

Now someone to carry your line....

Parent Pride

insert photo - Asian parents,

proud parent,

Indian parent

Photo by Wayne. This ad encourages pride.
It is one thing to be pleased or happy with a child's performance, quite another to bask in their glow of
achievements and push mere happiness to a proud state of being.
(Wells Fargo - 5th largest USA bank, and in the top 150 largest global corporations per Fortune Global 2006)

In the media, in some countries, becoming a parent is made out to be this life changing event with no parallel ever in the history of the universe. I got news for those people. There are 6.5 billion people on this planet. And countless others in the past. Being a parent is important, very important, but not quite as important as some people would make it out to be.

Have you seen animals give birth? Have you ever seen how tiny and fragile they are when born? They don't have it easy either. I don't get the sense that they complain too much about it. Many parents in "3rd world" countries don't complain nearly as much as "1st world" parents. Whiners - fueled by the "baby/child" industry. This I have observed.

Anyways - this pride is the feeling a father and/or mother gets just for having a child and providing basic care - no more or less.

Of interesting note - is that if parents used correct techniques, parenting would be easier. But many in the modern world have been deceived by so called experts. Read the book - Our Babies, Ourselves below to verify what I say. Look up Ethnopediatrics.

Or forget about reading - just look at our fucking world!! If all parents are so good - why is the world so fucked up? Why are there so many wars? Disconnect between people thinking they are GOOD parents, and actually BEing GOOD parents.

Sibling
Pride

One sibling does better than others - jealousy builds in the one who doesn't succeed quite as well in the eyes of their parents.

Or pride builds due to child favoritism - intentional or unintentional.

Pride
of vanity

Noted below with self-deception.

Internal

Pride of intelligence

You earn / awarded high degrees (Masters, PHD, etc...). You think you are smart.

Experience
Pride

Life Resume

I was guilty of this one.

This is when one acquires a certain set of experiences that make one believe they are superior to others in a way that exhibits in xxxxxxxxxxxxx

Of course those with experience in something will share knowledge....but does the person look down on others.

You accumulate a lot of life experiences (Travel, Business, Life travails), you think you are da' bomb.

Gay /
Lesbian
Pride

Pride, not prejudice. Excuse me...prejudice is because of PRIDE!!!
No pride, no prejudice.
No pride, no gay?

Gay Lesbian Flag

Gay Pride (Wiki)

Gay Pride Parade (Wiki) - It's not a big secret. Nobody makes the pride-gay connection, because when you are in love with pride yourself - you don't notice it.

The debate continues on whether being gay is natural / genetic or a mental disorder. (What if for some it was the former, others the latter?) I make no further judgement on this other than the following observation:

I have worked with gay individuals and socialized too. I have discovered the following - The 'passive/female' side is quite often a friendly person with over the top flamboyance (which can be entertaining). But, the 'aggressive/male' side is quite simply - an unpleasant person to be around. They are quick to anger, over-reaction, unreasonable, impatient. These are all signs of pride. Is every 'male' side like this? I DO NOT KNOW. But, I have known enough gay/lesbian couples in enough situations to make the above statement.

I am not an expert on this, but these are just my thoughts. If a gay/lesbian couple could follow Mind / No Mind to completion and then tell me what happens - that would be good.