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A special case of xenophobia.
It has three main functions::
1) Increase the status in their eyes and in the eyes of others. If I can violate the boundaries of others with impunity, then I am more powerful than them, so I am not the last bug.
2) Cohesion: evolutionary psychologists write that we, as a species, show altruism to “our own” in a completely interconnected way, precisely as a reaction to “alien”,” dangerous ” environments.�
3) Projection: you need to project all your own fears about yourself on someone (maybe I'm stupid, insignificant, self-serving, ugly?!.) and brand it. Then everyone (and myself first of all) will understand that I have something with this all right, this is it!..
In short, evolutionarily we are truly xenophobic. This does not mean that we “should” be like this, or that it is “right”. If you want, this is part of the animal nature of man, within which the normal development of conflict is through hostility, escalation, hatred, a club to the head. – And constructive conflict management, with clear respect for the personality of the interlocutor and the search for win-win solutions , is completely unnatural. This is the result of the development of human culture. – Like tolerance: tolerance for differences.
There may well be evolutionary reasons for this. I'm not an expert, but I can guess. Probably, the cultural or genetic code contains information about what a weak, defective, or foreign individual should look like if it cannot produce viable offspring when it enters into a union with my relatives.
Or people react in this way to strong, but alien individuals who represent a successful competitor for resources and offspring.
The level of modern medicine allows you to have offspring in pairs and individuals that would have been ballast 300 years ago. The level of modern internationality allows people of very different tribes to successfully make friends and cooperate.
But our animal part is not yet aware of all these innovations.
Here you need to divide the question into 2, or even 3.1
) why do some people generally humiliate others? Here, as a rule, the method of building a social hierarchy inherited from animals is “to blame”. “Gnobi” whom you can, so as not to “gnobili” you.
2) why do they humiliate those who do not look like the humiliating one? It's all about the method of self-identification. “Not like-means a stranger”
3) why humiliate on external grounds? They are the easiest to detect.
Because this is required by the “instinct to drive out the white crow”, inherited by a person from the time when he was not a person. In the animal world, populations are thus excluded from breeding carriers of a potentially dangerous genotype (all sorts of freaks, mutants, carriers of genetic diseases). The instinctive base can not recognize which deviation is dangerous for the population's gene pool and which is not, so everyone who has any deviations that go beyond the normal variations of any trait for this population is persecuted and expelled.
And humiliation is not the smartest side of humanity at all.
If you are concerned about the question-for some reason everything is simple. Человеку A person finds this unpleasant and pays attention to it, plus many people find it funny when they manage to hook another person.
In parallel with this, we should not forget that people want to be proud of something, to feel better than others. But what if you're no better? You look the same as everyone else, you dress the same. you'll look the same. you work the same way. Of course, you can strain yourself and take care of yourself… and you can not do this because you are too lazy. it's easier to poke your fingers at a person who doesn't have that either.
And now you're feeling better.
Because they don't have empathy or morals . If there is no God, then everything is allowed . Well, also, if they do not meet with proper resistance . Mike Tyson would have weaned any racist off . Well, in general, a determined person with a traumatic gun, pepper spray or a stun gun . The knife also promotes tolerance .
They consider themselves better, and they just have high self-esteem.But most people don't think so.I believe that you should treat others the way you want them to treat you