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Beyond just skin color look at religion, sports, nationality, school almamater, etc...Humans are pretty wired to form ingroup/outgroups.
by nickthemagicman 9y ago
Beyond just skin color look at religion, sports, nationality, school almamater, etc...Humans are pretty wired to form ingroup/outgroups.
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- qznc 9y agoIf we want to consider the business world, there is frontend vs backend people, dev vs ops, sales vs development, blue vs white collar, management vs employee, ...
- agumonkey 9y agoIn college, the petty races between all subfields of CS hurt my learning. Lots of overlaps but no attempt at leveraging other similar ideas to ease the learning; everyone in its own silo.
- ddorian43 9y agoBut frontend sucks for REAL, no ?
- nickthemagicman 9y agoBack End > ALL (as long as you're not using PHP)
- slv77 9y agoOxytocin may be partly responsible for that wiring: http://www.pnas.org/content/108/4/1262 http://www.pnas.org/content/108/4/1262 My limited review of the research suggests that humans tit-for-tat trackers of betrayal and reciprocated trust. Oxytocin seems to add more weight to these memories in social interactions versus rational thought. The formation of outgroups may be the natural outcome of events that trigger the release of oxytocin.