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2nd May 2020
In-Group Love Translates to Out-Group Hatred
All the given articles seem to confirm the notion that an attachment to a particular group automatically elicits negative feelings against the opposing formation. An individual attached to a specific family, race, religion, political party, community, society, region, or continent would always react negatively to the people affiliated to outer groups. Unfortunately, such a strong identification with an in-group at the expense of the out-group has been found to spark off confrontations and conflicts. No wonder the Democrats and the Republicans, as it is with Christians and Muslims would never read on the same page. There are, ideally, several examples from the articles that can substantiate the assertion that an in-group attachment is always to the detriment of the out-group detachment.
An ideal example would be the racial attachment between the whites and the blacks during the colonial rule in America. Because the whites perceived themselves to be a superior race, they reserved the best privileges, rights, and opportunities for themselves at the expense of the Black Africans. Inferior Africans were subjected to slavery, hostility, and discrimination. A similar incident of racial discrimination occurred in Germany during the First World War. Hitler wanted to achieve a Jewish-free Germany and therefore ordered the massacre of all the Jews who were living in the country. The last example involves the attempt of Sarah to have a white identity while she biologically belonged to the black race. Her attachment to the white race made her deny her mother when she came to visit her in the school hostel. Sarah did not want other students to realize that she was from the African race. Due to shame, her mother became stressed and developed mental and psychological problems. Sarah’s white boyfriend, upon discovering that her fiancée was a Black, beat her and terminated the relationship. All the given cases justify the fact that an attachment to an in-group often has detrimental effects on the out-group.