# out-group (outside)

Those a collective self reads as outside its boundary, whose walls it does not keep.

- Computed level: L16 (depth in the emergence graph, not abstraction)
- Status: published  ·  Domain: agency

## Emergence
**Emerges from:** [collective self](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-collective-self.shared), [read](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-read.information), [outside](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-outside.spatial), [boundary](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-boundary.limit), [wall](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-wall.range-end), [keep](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-keep.maintenance)

**Through:** Once a collective self draws its boundary, it keeps up the walls of those inside and stops keeping those outside; the out-group is defined by that withdrawn maintenance as much as by any trait.

**Novel properties:**
- exclusion as withdrawn maintenance
- a boundary that sets two groups at once

## Examples
- In Muzafer Sherif's 1954 Robbers Cave experiment, two groups of boys, the Rattlers and the Eagles, soon treated each other as enemies, raiding each other's cabins, and the Eagles burned the Rattlers' flag. *(psychology)*

## Used by
- [bharat vs india](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-bharat-vs-india.names) (L17)
- [deep state](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-deep-state.hidden) (L18)
- [elite](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-elite.few) (L17)
- [establishment](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-establishment.settled) (L17)
- [fifth column](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-fifth-column.inside) (L17)
- [foreign interference](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-foreign-interference.outside) (L19)
- [heartland](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-heartland.core) (L17)
- [law-abiding citizens](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-law-abiding-citizens.deserving) (L19)
- [north-south divide](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-north-south-divide.regional) (L17)
- [not one of us](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-not-one-of-us.unlike) (L17)
- [one percent](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-one-percent.few) (L17)
- [ordinary people](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-ordinary-people.core) (L17)
- [our way of life](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-our-way-of-life.pattern) (L17)
- [outsiders coming in](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-outsiders-coming-in.crossing) (L17)
- [real people](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-real-people.narrowed) (L17)
- [second-class citizens](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-second-class-citizens.lesser) (L17)
- [self-sufficient](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-self-sufficient.autarkic) (L17)
- [silent majority](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-silent-majority.unheard) (L17)
- [take back our country](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-take-back-our-country.regain) (L19)
- [us versus them](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-us-versus-them.split) (L17)

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*Structured data: https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-out-group.outside.json*  
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