Social Separatism and Political Descent into Cultural Insensitivity

Stratified Social Status, Ethnic, and Racial Identity Form a Global Structure That Shapes the Personalities of Persons Growing up Within the Respective Sub Groupings

Level of Social Status, Ethnic and Racial Identity Involves a Concept of Conditions That Define the Status, a Territory, and Psychological Borders High Status People: Perceived high prerogatives and entitlement to opportunity and privilege. Low Status People: Perceived permanent lack of privilege; lack of prerogatives or opportunity, yet perceived entitlement to minimum subsistence Border H “This is my territory!” “This is my territory!” “This is my territory!” M L Middle Status People: Perceived need to struggle for opportunity and privilege; no entitlement.

Border Level of Social Status, Ethnic and Racial Identity Engenders Anxiety or Fear Over Crossing Status, Ethnic, or Racial Borders H L M M High Status People Middle Status People Low Status People I wonder what ‘they’ are like down there? I wonder what ‘they’ are like down there? I wonder what ‘they’ are like up there? I wonder what ‘they’ are like up there?

M M Level of Social Status, Ethnic and Racial Identity Engenders Different Types of Psychological Experiences When Crossing Borders Into Other Status Levels or Ethnic or Racial Groups High Status People: “I’m feeling moderately out of place, but superior.” Middle Status People: “I’m feeling inferior, embarrassment, pressure, anxiety, unsure of my place, and insecure about belonging.” Low Status People: “I’m feeling inferior, awkward, pressure, anxiety, unsure of my place, and insecure about belonging.” Border H H L L Middle Status People: “I’m feeling superior, disdain, pressure, fear, anxiety, unsure of my place, and don’t want to belong.” Low Status People: “I’m feeling moderately out of place and subservient.” High Status People: “I’m feeling superior, pressure, embarrassment, fear, anxiety, unsure of my role, and insecure about safety.”

Middle Status People:Feel envy, jealousy, disdain, subjection or oppressed by higher status people. Each Level of Social Status, Ethnic and Racial Identity Has Its Own Characteristic Feelings Toward People in Other Status Levels or Ethnic or Racial Groups High Status People: Feel condescending and patronizing toward middle status people Low Status People: Feel rivalry,envy, hostility toward middle status people. Border M H M H L H M H L M High Status People: Feel pity, compassion, distrust, disrespect toward lower status people. Low Status People: Feel awe, dependence, servility toward higher status people Middle Status People: Feel resentment, fear, disgust, disrespect toward lower status people.

Insider-Outsider Mentality Determines Biases in the Administration of Justice Middle to upper classes have xenophobia that is based on neighborhood of origin, skin color, language, articulated knowledge, manners, and physical appearance (clothes and grooming), other detectable signs of degree of wealth. Persons of wealth, high levels of education, a common language and conversational style, connections with other persons of wealth, form and immediate insider group. Insider groups have a fear of being misidentified as belonging to an outsider group and therefore losing their ticket to advantages. Insider groups tend have very little association or communication with people in outsider groups and, therefore, have little knowledge and understanding of people in outsider groups. Insider groups with high levels of life’s advantages tend to project their own unacceptable and suppressed inclinations onto outsiders and tend to fear outsiders. Fear, lack of understanding, projection of malice result in a bias against outsiders which results in dispensation of more extreme judgments and sentences against outsiders.

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