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 | | With each passing year, we find ourselves confronted with abundant new evidence of our human inclination to fragment into in-groups and out-groups. |
 | | Whether on the international scale or in our own neighborhoods, schools, and parishes, we see it happening over and over, one group declaring another to be outsiders, strangers, inferiors, not one of us. |
 | | The division is always arbitrary and usually quite superficial in origin, but that doesn't lessen the intensity with which it is felt and enforced, sometimes even with threats of death. |
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