Bourgeoisie

In 1943 Abraham Maslow, an american behavioural scientist , published an article entitled " A theory of human motivation" in which he argued that people everywhere and thats important everywhere are subject to what he called a "hierarchy of needs". At the bottom food and shelter, sex and sleep: elementary physiological needs. Next comes the basic needs of safety and security. As long as these things are lacking - as they are fo the billions of the world's poor-the search for them dominates every aspect of life.

But once these basic needs are met, people move up "Maslow's pyramid" to look for other things : what he called "belonging needs" (love,acceptance , affilation) "esteem needs" (self respect,social status, the approval of others ) and at the top "self actualisation". Maslow was talking about individuals but groups of people climb Maslow's pyramid too. Putting these alongside concepts of morality , to be more precise "Middle class morality" triggers some interesting chain of thoughts which I will try to elaborate/dwell upon later....anyways where would Maslow put me in his pyramid ? one of my basic elementary needs is still to be met completely and I am am trying to manage my "belonging and esteem" needs. You are in the segment what people call Bourgeoisie

This dude's theory was developed in a capitalistic, democratic Amreikan society and 50 years later the world is retracing the very same curve that western society took. And the same very theories come back to explain a rising middle class in Brazil, India and China.If I may theorize a bit more along these lines, the concept of a nation which was earlier tied to culture, language, geography might change and economic identity might take precedence. Already we are seeing the initial build ups of regional economic groupings like EU, ASEAN, SAARC, there is an Indian Ocean group as well comprising, SA, Australia and India, there is G8, G20 too. THis may not necessarily be a bad thing , but I am afraid we will become a bit too much driven and goal oriented :(