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Unfolding Nature Shop: Unfolding Nature: Being in the Implicate Order

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Collective identity and the need to belong
    #1675142 - 06/30/03 08:37 PM (20 years, 6 months ago)

Here's a tricky one. We've been discussing group identity in my philosophy class here at uni and the question was brought up, why do human beings have an inherent tendency to associate themselves with a group in order to form their identity? When people describe their identity they might say, "I'm black" or "I'm native American" or "I'm gay." They might also state how they're NOT something else, ie. "I'm not arab" or "I'm not Republican." People identify themselves in several ways but I'd say the most common are racially, sexually, politically, and geographically.

If you were to put 500 random people in an auditorium and observe them, you would notice that almost immediately people will start to congregate with others like themselves. First groups would form by age difference, then by gender, race, clothes/looks, et cetera. This is a very odd phenomenon that people don't often think about. There was even a story on MSNBC today saying that people look for mates who have similar qualities as themselves. There is something very comforting about being with others like you, but that's not the whole picture. Why are we comforted in this way? Do we all have a xenophobia that we deal with on a subconscious level, or is this an inherent trait in everything which is how Nature's makes order of things?


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Re: Collective identity and the need to belong [Re: Boppity604]
    #1675431 - 06/30/03 10:17 PM (20 years, 6 months ago)

What do you think the results of that same experiment would be if half of the group of people was blind and the other half was deaf?

Well I think the deaf and blind would split up first of all, since it's very difficult for a deaf person to communicate with a blind person and vice-versa. I think the deaf people would be just like any non-deaf, non-blind people in that they would associate with people of the same race/look, but the blind would attempt to just fit with others of similar age and personalities while disregarding race/gender/looks for the most part.


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