In tracing the process of how human beings separate into groups that can sometimes seek to destroy and harm one another, we begin by classifying people into two categories, the in-group and the out-group (what I’ve been referring to as Us and Them)—those groups that I identify myself as a member of, and those groups that I perceive to be different from me, those groups to which I do not belong. The process of dividing people into two groups, Us and Them, is one example of categorization. The brain really likes to categorize everything it can into groups—categorizing objects, concepts, and
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