{"id":21,"date":"2024-02-19T23:24:08","date_gmt":"2024-02-19T23:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/bennettg\/?p=21"},"modified":"2024-02-19T23:24:08","modified_gmt":"2024-02-19T23:24:08","slug":"who-are-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/bennettg\/2024\/02\/19\/who-are-others\/","title":{"rendered":"Who are “others”?"},"content":{"rendered":"

To be an \u201cother\u201d is to be an outsider. This typically means that the person or group of others is hard for the community to understand. For example, at Dickinson College I am a member of a Panhellenic sorority. If you ask people in Greek life about ritual events it is normal to them. It is part of their community\u2014it is what they are used to. However, if anyone else who is not in Greek life would very confused and most likely think it is not normal. The \u201cother\u201d depends on whose side you are looking at. For me, I am an insider in Greek life, it is my community and my culture. However, for athletes or people who are not a member in Greek life my community is seen as the \u201cothers\u201d. When there is a group of \u201cothers\u201d typically you only see their one \u201cthing\u201d that makes them different and overlook any other identities the group may have. This type of \u201cother\u201d is a group of others, but still, there can be individual others.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0Not only are there individual \u201cothers\u201d, but there can be \u201cothers\u201d within a group. This can happen for multiple reasons. The person could have cultural, financial, religious, etc. \u00a0differences from the group they are in. As well, the person might just not fit due to personalities within the group. This can cause tensions within communities, and there can be tensions between groups due to the idea of each other being \u201coutsiders\u201d.<\/p>\n

This is what happens in international politics at times. Two countries see each other as an outsider. The other country could have a different type of governments, such as a democracy, monarchy, theocracy, dictatorship. This can result in countries going to war or at least not being willing to work together on international treaties or policies. This is along the same idea that democracies don\u2019t go to war with other democracies but go to war with non-democracies, and non-democracies go to war with everyone. This is because even though there might be other differences between democracies, they have a unifying factor of being a democracy.<\/p>\n

Every time there is an \u201cother\u201d I think there is also a \u201csame\u201d. What I mean by this is that in the community there are people who have connections because not only are they a part of the same larger community, but because there is another unifying connection. This could be two people who play on the same athletics team in college, but they are also from the same hometown.<\/p>\n

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Politically the idea of \u201csame\u201d is why certain states are allies and \u201cothers\u201d are why certain states are not allies. For example, in the Middle East Iran and Saudi Arabia are rivals as they see each other as different and others. In Iran the majority of the people are Shia Muslim and in Saudi Arabia the majority of the people are Sunni Muslim. As well, Saudi Arabia is a Sunni Islamic theocracy and Iran is a Shia Islamic theocracy. This is important because it is not just the Saudis and the Iranians citizens, but the leaders of the governments are different. The historic tensions between the two sects has continued today. Even though Sunni and Shia are both part of Islam there are enough differences between the groups that they see each other as \u201cothers\u201d<\/a>. There are additional reasons for Saudi Arabia and Iran to be rivals but religion is arguably only one of them.<\/p>\n

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