# not one of us (unlike)

*Ordinarily means:* someone judged not to belong to the group because they are not like its members

A collective self that reads someone as outside its boundary because its model of them is not like its model of its members.

- Computed level: L17 (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), [boundary](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-boundary.limit), [model](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-model.representation), [like](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-like.similarity), [out-group](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-out-group.outside), [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), [someone](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-someone.person), [outside](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-outside.spatial)

**Through:** The boundary is set by likeness to a model of the members and not by any rule; the same test read the other way, people like us, draws the in-group.

**Novel properties:**
- a boundary drawn by resemblance
- the same test for inclusion and exclusion

## Examples
- Hugo Young's 1989 biography of Margaret Thatcher is titled 'One of Us', after the question she was reputed to ask about colleagues. *(politics)*

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