Like the robbers in the story of the Good Samaritan, we strip, beat, and dump people somewhere outside our own proper space half-dead (Luke 10:30). This is exclusion as elimination, most recently at work with such shameless brutality in places like Bosnia and Rwanda. The more benign side of exclusion by elimination is exclusion by assimilation. You can survive, even thrive, among us, if you become like us; you can keep your life, if you give up your identity.
