Whenever I go to the beach, shopping, watch tv, or take part in online communities, people will usually refer to a particular group of individuals as a certain category. Even casual conversation with friends you’ll hear it. What are some of these? Let’s see there’s purple people, white folks, immigrants, foreigners, Christians, conservatives, hippies, meat-heads, nerds, among others. In reality, these terms are ambiguous and arbitrary, but the desire to generalize is understandable. It’s practical and easier to have discussions when we abstract individuals by certain characteristics we...

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