tag name: Us and them type: Miscellaneous; Philosophy; Science: natural, social, and applied web link: bahai-library.com/tags/Us_and_them variations or mis-spellings: The other, In-group and out-group related tags: – Concepts; Discrimination; Identity; Other (othering); Prejudice, Elimination of; Sociology; Unity referring tags: Marginality; Xenophobia notes: "... Humanity is gripped by a crisis of identity, as various peoples and groups struggle to define themselves, their place in the world, and how they should act. Without a vision of shared identity and common purpose, they fall into competing ideologies and power struggles. Seemingly countless permutations of “us” and “them” define group identities ever more narrowly and in contrast to one another. Over time, this splintering into divergent interest groups has weakened the cohesion of society itself. Rival conceptions about the primacy of a particular people are peddled to the exclusion of the truth that humanity is on a common journey in which all are protagonists. Consider how radically different such a fragmented conception of human identity is from the one that follows from a recognition of the oneness of humanity. In this perspective, the diversity that characterizes the human family, far from contradicting its oneness, endows it with richness. Unity, in its Bahá’í expression, contains the essential concept of diversity, distinguishing it from uniformity. It is through love for all people, and by subordinating lesser loyalties to the best interests of humankind, that the unity of the world can be realized and the infinite expressions of human diversity find their highest fulfilment..." – The Universal House of Justice, from a message dated 18 January 2019 to the Bahá’ís of the World
references: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-group_and_out-group; www.bahai.org/library/authoritative-texts/search#q="us and them"
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