44 (A) This ideology has profoundly altered the way we think about the rights of both individuals and groups. (B) We conceptualize this space as privacy which protects the individual from the outside and from others. (C) In fact, we train our children to define and distinguish themselves from their peers, to be self-reliant and autonomous. (D) Historically, our culture has championed no single group, but it has championed the idea of the individual man or woman.