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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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