Another issue this creates is the "fight fire with fire" paradigm. Or, in this case, using favoritism to combat favoritism. For example, I know I'm much more l

Another issue this creates is the "fight fire with fire" paradigm. Or, in this case, using favoritism to combat favoritism. For example, I know I'm much more likely to get favoritism from people who share my ethnic background partly because there is the common belief within that group that nobody else is "looking out for us"-- so we have to "look out for each other."