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		BurningFrog on July 4, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Mendon, Missouri I think it's a basic feature of human nature that every ingroup has an outgroup.

mlyle on July 4, 2022 [–]

Sure. But in a big city, you'll find that groups you're "out" of don't affect you as much.

In a small town, if the town is the ingroup, and you're the outgroup... you're going to have a bad time.

BurningFrog on July 4, 2022 | [–]

Yeah, I think that's the pro & con of living in a "real community".

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