W.E.B. Du Bois was one of the most important African-American activists during the first half of the 20th century. He co-founded the NAACP and supported Pan-Africanism. He believed that in order to survive you must humiliate yourself for your own sake. He believed that a person should stand up for their nations flag even though they did not believe in its justice. He believed to oblige to people who are more privilege to receive noblesse oblige from them. Humility, even if deceitful, is necessary for self-preservation and survival.
Humility is having or showing a modest or low estimate of one's own importance. Exactly what thousands of people do to live. A rich person in a "ghetto" high school will humble themselves to fit in. They wont speak about their riches, they wont speak about their expensive house, don't speak about the fact that if they wanted to their parents can buy the high school. They must humble themselves so they don't get hate for bragging. Dali Lama, a very important figure for the Buddhism culture humbles himself by showing that he's just an ordinary person like everyone else. He was in an interview and started making farting jokes, and actually farted. He humbles himself so those who are "superior" to him know how important his culture is to his people. There's that worker who kisses their bosses butt just to get a raise. They do it in order to succeed, in order to get more money. It doesn't matter if their boss is arrogant, rude, obnoxious. There are thousands of important people figures who humble themselves for the benefit of others in order to succeed and there's others who don't.
There's a very important figure in our country who does not humble himself for the benefits of others. Which is our president Donald Trump. He speaks his mind and doesn't care about what others have to say about it. He succeeded by not being humble, by speaking his mind, the truth in which he believes in. Although that also can get you to succeed, it doesn't help with your sanity. It doesn't help with self-preservation because once he is out of commission everyone will see him as that "obnoxious" president who ruined our country. Yet he doesn't care about that he's self centered and just cares about himself right now. It wont matter until he is out and thinking about what he has done, his mental health will eat him away.
In conclusion, it depends on the person itself and how they are raised for them to know humility. For them to know what humanity is actually like. Humanity needs humility to understand each other and succeed as a whole not have one person succeed and leave the rest of the world oblivious of the great opportunities. Humility is necessary for humanity to advance, it's necessary to keep us sane, it's necessary for survival. For the survival of our race.
