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Social Ego

Of all the problems faced by us today, social ego is one that is seemingly intolerable. By the words "social ego" I mean to say the ego of the society. For instance, I would like to share some of the dialogues that we keep listening or situations we come across very often.I am talking in the Indian context, don't know how things are in the rest of the world. " Mrs.X : My daughter joined in the engineering course, what about yours?    Mrs.Y:  My daughter wants to do a course in humanities and sciences.    Mrs.X : What!!!!(with a sarcastic smile). Such courses don't have any value today." After this conversation, Y wouldn't want her daughter to take any other course except engineering because she feels everything else other than that is useless and a waste of time. If the daughter opposes, then she would tell that this is the current day's trend , so we have to go with it. Who created this trend? Why do we need a hell lot of engineers who study ...