Freud wrote in On Human Sexuality of the tendency of humans in search of an identity to focus on minute differences between themselves and their neighbors. He and others have commented that some of the deepest and most intransigent disputes are between people who, to an outsider, appear identical.
Think Serbs v. Croats, who share such similarities that they often have to interrogate each other for a few minutes to determine whether they are friends or foe. Ditto the Catholics v. Protestants in Ireland’s six separate counties or Sunni v. Shia in the Muslim world.
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