An israeli soldier remarks “the palestinian boys would look at you with hatred, such hatred that it reminded me of how the jews in concentration camps in the holocaust looked at [the guards]. you are the most evil thing on earth right now…”. charles horton cooley would argue that the guard imagining himself from the perspective of the palestinian boys represents the dynamics of

The appropriate response is Looking-Glass Self. The looking-glass self is a social mental idea, made by Charles Horton Cooley in 1902, expressing that a man's self becomes out of society's relational collaborations and the view of others. The idea of the mirror self-depicts the advancement of one's self and of one's personality through one's relational communications inside the setting of society.