And our reaction to them says a great deal about how we perceive ourselves.
What is the effect on how we perceive ourselves and each other?
"It's about how we perceive ourselves and how we perceive apes.
This art – the Angel of the North or Auf Wiedersehen, Pet – becomes part of how we perceive ourselves.
He's correct, but it is not because we can't perceive ourselves as anything but victims, as he implies.
And these wild places shape not just our culture but our character; they provide, another contributor argues, "a governing idea in the way we perceive ourselves as Americans".
"To be vigilant over things that we don't perceive ourselves to have control over is an unusual condition for us to be in," Mr. MacGregor said.
Tonight at 8: ChameckiLerner offers "Poor Reality," an examination of perceptions of identity and the ways in which we perceive ourselves and others perceive us.
Identity - who we are, where we come from, how we perceive ourselves and how others see us - has long been a theme of poetry.
Researchers at the Senate House in London, meanwhile, will reveal how music and other sounds influence the way we perceive ourselves, with visitors invited to don a pair of "sonic shoes".
Our identity as a nation does not just depend upon what we say, but upon what we do; and not only on how we perceive ourselves, but upon how others perceive us.
