Black/white, straight/gay, male/female, light/dark, good hair/bad hair, young old, smart/dumb, fat/thin, hot/not, healthy/sickly, rich/poor,...IMOHO - Most people identify as that which they are not.
In a room full of straight, Christian, rich, old, white males - the gay, Christian, rich, old, white male stands out.
Or the straight, Christian, rich, old, Black male.
Or the straight, Christian, rich, old, white female.
In a room full of rich, educated, young , Black, Christian, light-skinned males - the rich, educated, young, Black, Christian, dark-skinned male stands out.
And on and on...
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ReplyDeleteYou're right whatever is different stands out. The true experiment would be to put a bunch of people with nothing in common at all and see what happens.
I'll call it the mutt experiment. Like a dog in a dog park will he walk around sniffing butts trying to find out who's friendly before finally returning to sit under the bench where the master is OR will they drop all the differences and pee all over place marking their territory in this free for all.
As you said, we identify with what makes us stand out, till there is opposition or till we change groups.
ReplyDeleteWhen we are part of a crowd we may not even notice the characteristics that make us similar, they blend. Once we leave that group the conrast with others will help us see the parts of the former group that we picked up.
Often we identify with the group when someone or some group that is obviously an "other" stands in opposition to our member group. Then we "flock together".
I'm just Reggie.
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