And at worst, it not only promotes but requires othering, categorizing those who are slightly different as somehow less. It's the basis of all sorts of institu

And at worst, it not only promotes but requires othering, categorizing those who are slightly different as somehow less. It's the basis of all sorts of institutional racism and xenophobia and lends these a veneer of social acceptability, and has no place in any community that can see beyond its own valley.