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>> I read somewhere that a scientific study showed that amoung American
>> social groups, there was a need for a "deviant". I forget the exact
>> experiment, but they found that no matter which way they put a bunch of
>> kids into social groups, eventually one or maybe some small number of
>> the kids would be singled out as "the deviant", and thereafter harrassed
>> and bullied. Change the social groups and the person who's the deviant
>> changes, but there still *is* a deviant.
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> I'm suspecting there's something inherent in human DNA which causes this.
> (Of course exceptions exist. They always exist. But they are very rare in
> this case.)
The subtle hinting that this phenominon doesn't occur in some other
places [though it didn't specify WHERE] suggests that this might be
learned rather than innate. But I could be very wrong...
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