Social Bubbles

People inherently seek out like-minded people who can validate the seeker's preconceived ideas. This is known as affinity-seeking behavior. Validation and fear go hand-in-hand to create divisions between groups of people based on physical appearance, a lack of accurate information, and a surplus of disinformation.

Link to the Google Doc "The Origins of Bigotry" outline.

People divide and isolate themselves and their own kind based a number of factors including but not limited to the following:

• Skin color
• Ethnicity
• Language

These tend to be judged from a distance with minimal direct communication. People are further divided into sub-groups that can be inclusive of members from the above list:

• Socioeconomic Stratification
• Physical characteristics such health, weight, hair loss, eye color, defects, etc.
• Established Religion
• Politics
• School extra-curricular activitiies
• Limited Values Structires
• Pro life
• Pro choice
• Gun control
• Gun rights
• Anti Vaccination
• Conspiracy Theorists
• Race Domination
• Hobbies and Entertainment

Some of these sub-groups can create a false sense of intellectual superiority in their diversity of membership.

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