We all want to be different from each other and strive to show our individuality and uniqueness. When choosing clothes, for example, every woman tries to emphasize her originality with the help of the original style, as well as various details and accessories.
If we turn to history and recall the Soviet era, when everyone dressed as one in a department store in uniform for everyone, it can be noted that the appearance of the so-called “dudes” was already a sign of struggle and a desire to show individuality.
People are always trying to demonstrate their uniqueness. Tiny babies from birth show character and temperament. Even if twins were born to one mother, she can easily distinguish them by their habits and manner of behavior, because each of them reacts differently to everything that happens around.
Individuality is the unique qualities of an individual person, peculiar features that belong only to him. Personal qualities of a person, his habits and interests, the manifestation of emotions and moods, abilities and inclinations - all this is a holistic characteristic of a person, making it unique.
A person realizes his individuality through behavior in society, reactions to certain situations and events. I would like to note that the media have a significant impact on the process of personality development. Too many programs and various kinds of talk shows lead to standardized, one-sided development. The ability to think and analyze is depressed, because the presented situations and images already have spaced accents and, as it were, push towards the conclusions drawn. This is most dangerous for adolescents, since at this age, individuality is still an unformed personality trait, and a person only has a process of socialization. And in such cases, any authoritatively declared theory is accepted as truth.
Yet people are distinguished from each other not only by their external characteristics, which include figure, height, eye color, etc. The main difference lies in the set of personal psychological properties, such as temperament, ability, emotionality, character.
Individuality is a set of certain traits that form the formation of a particular person as a person, making him unique and special. The desire to be different from others makes the individual to express himself, to do things that will characterize him as an independent and thinking person.
It is curious that, as a rule, many people confuse two different concepts of “individuality” and “personality”. The processes of their formation are fundamentally different. The socialization of man in society, which consists in the development of a social essence by him, leads to the formation of personality. This is inextricably linked with generally accepted social norms and formed rules of behavior that are accepted in society.
The manifestation of individuality consists in the isolation of the personality, its isolation in society. You can talk about the individuality of a person if he managed to prove himself.
The difference between these two concepts can be easily understood with the help of the epithets that their rich Russian language generously awarded. So, speaking of individuality, most often you can hear "creative", "unique", "bright". Thus, the level of development and independence of a person is usually emphasized. The definition of “personality” is supplemented by the epithets “energetic”, “strong”, “independent”. In fact, all this allows us to understand and determine the spiritual essence of man.
Having understood the concepts, we can safely say that first of all, an individual is a person, but which one depends on the spiritual development and worldview of a particular person.