# out-group (outside)

Those a collective self reads as outside its boundary, whose walls it does not keep.

- 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), [read](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-read.information), [outside](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-outside.spatial), [boundary](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-boundary.limit), [wall](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-wall.range-end), [keep](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-keep.maintenance)

**Through:** Once a collective self draws its boundary, it keeps up the walls of those inside and stops keeping those outside; the out-group is defined by that withdrawn maintenance as much as by any trait.

**Novel properties:**
- exclusion as withdrawn maintenance
- a boundary that sets two groups at once

## Used by
- [bharat vs india](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-bharat-vs-india.names) (L17)
- [deep state](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-deep-state.hidden) (L18)
- [elite](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-elite.few) (L17)
- [establishment](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-establishment.settled) (L17)
- [fifth column](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-fifth-column.inside) (L17)
- [foreign interference](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-foreign-interference.outside) (L19)
- [heartland](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-heartland.core) (L17)
- [law-abiding citizens](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-law-abiding-citizens.deserving) (L19)
- [north-south divide](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-north-south-divide.regional) (L17)
- [not one of us](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-not-one-of-us.unlike) (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)
- [our way of life](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-our-way-of-life.pattern) (L17)
- [outsiders coming in](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-outsiders-coming-in.crossing) (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)
- [self-sufficient](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-self-sufficient.autarkic) (L17)
- [silent majority](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-silent-majority.unheard) (L17)
- [take back our country](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-take-back-our-country.regain) (L19)
- [us versus them](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-us-versus-them.split) (L17)

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*Canonical: https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-out-group.outside*  
*Structured data: https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-out-group.outside.json*  
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