>> 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.
> 
>   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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