Lack of individual historical context

When an individual does not know or rejects their own family history they have no context in which to make decisions for the future. Such rootlessness has a paralyzing effect, so that the past no longer appears as a series of related events and the individual does not see their own life as part of history.

1. Self-image unrelated to the external world
2. Historical rootlessness

1. Lost family heritage

1. Sense of impermanence
2. Moral pretension

1. Inadequate dissemination of local information
2. Disunity in urban villages

1. Dependence within extended families

1. Limited cultural context

1. Grounding historical significance
2. Doing without adequate historical context

1. Lack