{
  "id": "real-people.narrowed",
  "term": "real people",
  "sense": "narrowed",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "published",
  "level": 17,
  "domain": "agency",
  "style": "folk",
  "definition": "A collective self that narrows its boundary to the members it reads as real members, so that its other members read as outside it.",
  "folk_gloss": "the claim that only some of a nation's people are its genuine members, as in 'real Americans' or 'true Indians'",
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "collective-self.shared",
      "boundary.limit",
      "in-group.inside",
      "out-group.outside",
      "narrow.spatial",
      "member.social",
      "read.information",
      "real.actual",
      "outside.spatial"
    ],
    "interaction": "The boundary is redrawn inside the membership: every member is still a member by the rules, but the self model keeps only some as the group, and the rest drop to outside.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "an out-group made from members",
      "a second boundary inside the first"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "second-class-citizens.lesser",
      "type": "contrasts-with",
      "note": "second class citizens are kept inside for duties and outside for protection; real people drops the others from the group itself"
    },
    {
      "id": "not-one-of-us.unlike",
      "type": "contrasts-with",
      "note": "not one of us reads one person out by likeness; real people redraws the whole group's core"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "real americans",
    "real britons",
    "real indians",
    "real people",
    "true americans",
    "true indians"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "claude-opus-5-5:hand-curated",
    "date": "2026-09-29",
    "confidence": 0.85,
    "sources": [
      "schema/power-agency-phase.md"
    ]
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-real-people.narrowed"
}