He went to Boys High School, one of the top high schools in Brooklyn. grew up in libraries and among books.' It was here that he developed his love for reading and learning. He also grew up with few friends other than his cousin Will, and as a result '. He is quoted as saying, 'What I had reacted to was not only her physical appearance, but also her values and world view, her stinginess, her total selfishness, her lack of love for anyone else in the world-even her own husband and children-her narcissism, her Negro prejudice, her exploitation of everyone, her assumption that anyone was wrong who disagreed with her, her lack of friends, her sloppiness and dirtiness.'. The tension outside his home was also felt within it, as he rarely got along with his mother, and eventually developed a strong revulsion towards her. Maslow and other young people with his background were struggling to overcome such acts of racism and ethnic prejudice in the attempt to establish an idealistic world based on widespread education and economic justice. He had various encounters with anti-Semitic gangs who would chase and throw rocks at him. His parents were poor and not intellectually focused, but they valued education. They had decided to live in New York City and in a multiethnic, working-class neighborhood. His parents were first-generation Jewish immigrants from Kiev, then part of the Russian Empire (now Kyiv, Ukraine), who fled from Czarist persecution in the early 20th century. 2.6 Qualities of self-actualizing peopleД«orn in 1908 and raised in Brooklyn, New York, Maslow was the oldest of seven children.

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