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They develop pseudokinship within their own group — everyone is nice, or forgiven, or perceived as better than they perhaps are … pseudospeciation is how the group comes to perceive OTHER groups — as inhuman, inhumane … not really quite worthy to live, certainly not that big a deal to kill …
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I read a great word last night … “pseudospeciation.”
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Groups become interesting to an evolutionist when there are active attempts to segregate the group from the surrounding peoples, a situation that results in what Erikson termed "cultural pseudospeciation".
The Civic Platform - A Political Journal of Ideas and Analysis 2008
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