§1. I am a human being

A Grade 5 topic in Man and Society: §1. I am a human being (pp. 5–10, O. Zh. Osmonov, Sh. K. Kerimova, O. B. Saalaev). The human being counts as part of nature and belongs to the higher mammals, so a human being is a biological creature. At the same time a human being is part of society: we have consciousness, speak, work, create new things and make culture. Animals have no consciousness and live by instinct. Instinct is the basic actions of animals passed down from their ancestors through the generations. In his novel The Place of the Skull, Chingiz Aitmatov wrote that the hardest thing for a person is to be a human being every day. Zuurakan Kainazarova, Aliya Anarova and Tashtanbek Akmatov were twice Heroes of Socialist Labour. Yuri Gagarin, the first to open the road to space, is the pride of humanity, and the Kyrgyz cosmonaut Salizhan Sharipov became a glorious son of the Kyrgyz people.