Us and Them: Understanding Your Tribal Mind - Hardcover

Berreby, David

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0316090301 ISBN 13: 9780316090308

Publisher: Little, Brown and Company, 2005

Synopsis

This groundbreaking and eloquently written book explains how and why people are wedded to the notion that they belong to differing human kindstribe-type categories like races, ethnic groups, nations, religions, castes, street gangs, sports fandom, and high school cliques. Why do we see these divisions? Why do we care about them so much? Why do we kill and die for them? This is the stuff of news headlines. How has a nation gone from peaceful coexistence to genocide? How does social status affect your health? Why are teenagers willing to kill themselves in hazing rituals in order to belong to a fraternity or social group? How do terrorists learn not to care about the lives of those they attack? US AND THEM gets at the heart of these profound questions by looking at their common root in human nature. Politics, culture, and economics play their parts, but its the human mind that makes them possible, and thats the focus of US AND THEM. Were not born with a map of human kinds; each person makes his own and learns to fight for it. This is a crucial subject that touches all of our lives in ways both large and small, obvious and subtle. Human-kind thinkingwhether beneficial or destructiveis part of human nature, as David Berrebys brilliant book reveals.

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Hardcover. Pub Date: 2005 Pages: 384 Publisher: Little own in This groundeaking and eloquently written book explains how and why people are wedded to the Notion that they belong to the Differing the human kindstribe-type CATEGORIES like Races ethnic groups. Nations. religions. castes. street gangs. sports fandom. and high school cliques. Why do we see these divisions Why do we care about them so much Why do we kill and die for them This is the stuff of news headlines. How has a nation gone from peaceful coexistence to genocide How does social status affect your health Why are teenagers willing to kill themselves in hazing rituals in order to belong to a fraternity or social group How do terrorists learn not to care about the lives of those they attack US AND THEM gets at the heart of these profound questions by looking at their common root in human nature. Politics. culture....

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Understanding your tribal mind

About this edition

• Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0316090301
• ISBN 13: 9780316090308
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 384