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Conformity In Our Society

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The research I have collected on university students will not only teach us about how we identify in our society, but how we identify as human beings. Humans want to belong. But the same feeling of belonging to a group comes with other feelings: discrimination. The emotions that come with identifying are accompanied by a feeling of superiority over those with whom you do not. You may know these feelings from the anger of attending a home game at Faurot Field and seeing anyone wearing colors that are not gold and black. The tribes not only give us rules and identity, but it gives us a sense of belonging that we carry for the rest of our

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