Consciousness is the domain of my existence. The domain of my being is surrounded with other people who are my world and their behavior is the nature of the reality I am living in. Similarly, I am a part of the reality of another human being as you are a part of mine. And what we make of ourselves to others is what their reality is like for them.
Every individual is a culture of their own with unique differences when compared to the other. In a mass, they are the culture of my nation. And in a greater mass, they are the global culture. But we are often blind to the fact that we are the reality of another and a part of that which forms the global culture. Shortsighted for the reality where we are the nature of another sentient life and how the reality is natured and behaves.
The only people who are real for us are the people we know. The rest is a gray mass of individuals with whom we do not share experiences or have no knowledge of their personalities. Someone who you are walking in close distance in the street is only a part of the crowd you feel only sensory connections. It does not matter who are a part of the busy street. They are not real to you in the same manner as people you know are. They are just a part of the representation you have categorized as the crowd on the street. And if this happens to us in large enough cities, consider how unreal the people in the global world are for us.
We still make it our business to discriminate people who are unreal to us. Or because of differences in others, we make it our business to transform the reality to be hostile towards them through our actions. What we make of ourselves is also what we make the reality to be like. In case of the people who are unknown to us, if we instead did know them and if they were as real to us as persons as our family members are, we would be far less discriminating if they were real to us. And when we do argue with people we know, giving them the right for their own beliefs, when we are contradicted, we do not take it so personally as we do when an unknown individual makes it his or her business to contradict us. These are all a part of being the reality of another.
