Us and them
I have always thought of myself as a citizen of the world, rejecting the bullshit nationalism that is mislabled patriotism in the USA. Sometimes though, I understand the desire to have boundaries between "us" and "them" it is just that the idea that there are people who are "them" is wrong. We are all "us." It is just some of us are more familiar and easy to get along with others of us. We tend to call the us that we are less familiar and comfortable with "them." I call this practice of drawing artificial lines between us and them "othering." The practice of othering leads to unnecessary divisions and greater conflict as "we" become afraid that "they" are trying to victimize us.
JB aka JayBee created this post at 12:28 AM.
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