What are our obligations toward others? What influences our decision whether or not to offer help?ДЄs the train was entering the Atlantic Avenue station, some white man stood up from his seat and helped her out, placing the children on the long, deserted platform. Just as it was a problem for her to get on, it was going to be a problem for her to get off the subway with two small children to be taken care of, a baby on her right arm, and a medium-sized valise in her left hand.ДЄnd there I was, also preparing to get off at Atlantic Avenue, with no bundles to take care of-not even the customary book under my arm, without which I feel that I am not completely dressed. She was a nice-looking white lady in her early twenties.ДЄt Nevins Street, Brooklyn, we saw her preparing to get off at the next station-Atlantic Avenue-which happened to be the place where I too had to get off. I am still trying to remember how she managed to push herself in with a baby on her right arm, a valise in her left hand and two children, a boy and girl about three and five years old, trailing after her. She came into the subway at the 34th Street Pennsylvania Station. It was very late at night on the eve of Memorial Day.

As writer JesГєs ColГіn discovered on a subway ride in New York City in the 1950s, perceptions about oneвЂ™s own identity and the identities of others can affect the decisions people make about one another.

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