# in-group (inside)

The members a collective self reads as inside its boundary.

- Computed level: L16 (depth in the emergence graph, not abstraction)
- Status: published  ·  Domain: agency

## Emergence
**Emerges from:** [collective self](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-collective-self.shared), [member](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-member.social), [read](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-read.information), [inside](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-inside.spatial), [boundary](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-boundary.limit)

**Through:** Drawing a boundary around some members makes a second set of things at once: those left out. The in-group is the inside of that line as the collective self reads it.

**Novel properties:**
- a boundary drawn by a model, not by space
- insideness that must be kept up

## Used by
- [bharat vs india](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-bharat-vs-india.names) (L17)
- [buy local](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-buy-local.firms) (L17)
- [diaspora vote](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-diaspora-vote.abroad) (L18)
- [heartland](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-heartland.core) (L17)
- [middle class](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-middle-class.centre) (L18)
- [nation of immigrants](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-nation-of-immigrants.arrival) (L19)
- [north-south divide](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-north-south-divide.regional) (L17)
- [one nation](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-one-nation.whole) (L17)
- [one percent](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-one-percent.few) (L17)
- [ordinary people](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-ordinary-people.core) (L17)
- [real people](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-real-people.narrowed) (L17)
- [second-class citizens](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-second-class-citizens.lesser) (L17)
- [silent majority](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-silent-majority.unheard) (L17)
- [us versus them](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-us-versus-them.split) (L17)
- [we the people](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-we-the-people.setter) (L18)
- [working families](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-working-families.broad) (L19)

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*Canonical: https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-in-group.inside*  
*Structured data: https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-in-group.inside.json*  
*Every definition provably resolves to space, time, energy and pattern.*