Quality time with friends and family is always good for you. It gives you a better chance of getting to know them on a deeper level. Maybe you will learn new things about them that you really didn’t know before. It always good to spend quality time with people who you want close to you.
for a relationship, it would be important to know the good and bad to see if they would be someone that you would want to stay with and would not cheat on you vice versa, and as a group, it would be important to get to gather to strengthen friendships and make sure the group mentality thing doesn't happen.
Between 1895 and 1898 Cuba and the Philippine Islands revolted against Spain. The Cubans gained independence, but the Filipinos did not. In both instances the intervention of the United States was the culminating event.