Humans play a huge role in shaping social contractions. Indeed, symbolic internationalists place enormous emphasis on individual relationships and interactions as a way to shape their actions and responses, not on established social structures such as government or the media. It is the small interactions one has that causes them to act and respond in certain ways and this is provocatively the case with the social construction of health and illness in society. In addition to the great emphasis on individual relationships, symbolic internationalism narrows the field and places great importance on the role that talking and relating to each other has in the formation of a social construction. When we interact with each other and also experience different things, we form new definitions. For example, HIV is a disease that is often frowned upon in society. We all assume that those who have it are promiscuous, just sleep around, and are wild. It is only when we meet someone with the disease or learn that some were born with the disease or were raped that our view of the disease changes. Our interactions, conversations and knowledge about and with illness and health help us form new definitions; and all three of these factors are influenced by