Electromagnet VS permanent magnets!

I learned that electromagnets are different than permanent magnets. Example: electromagnets are only magnets when something is attached to it from a wire. But permanent magnets are permanent. So they are always a magnet. Like when you try to attach paper clips to an electromagnet that is not attached to a battery, (or something) then it will not attract. If you try and attach a permanent magnet to a paper clip it will attracted!! That’s an example of how an electromagnet and a permanent magnet are different.

 

The questions I have are here: How does a permanent magnet, start as a magnet? Why don’t a electromagnet, start not a magnet, and a permanent magnet does? Why do magnets not attracted when they are both facing the same side? And those are my questions. (:

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