Self reliance is the ability to depend on yourself to get things done and to meet your own needs. An example of self reliance is growing your own food. The capacity to rely on one's own capabilities, and to manage one's own affairs; independence not to be dependent. Reliance on one's own judgment, abilities, etc.
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C. This answer makes the most sense because when someone is intolerant of others, the "others" would likely want to shun him.
In the novel, Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, the main character, Anne Frank, and her family were prosecuted for being Jews during World War 2. Along with two other families, to save their lives, they took refuge in entering the Secret Annex to escape the barbaric prosecution by the Nazis.