# real people (narrowed)

*Ordinarily means:* the claim that only some of a nation's people are its genuine members, as in 'real Americans' or 'true Indians'

A collective self that narrows its boundary to the members it reads as real members, so that its other members read as outside it.

- 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), [in-group](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-in-group.inside), [out-group](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-out-group.outside), [narrow](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-narrow.spatial), [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), [real](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-real.actual), [outside](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-outside.spatial)

**Through:** 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

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*Canonical: https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-real-people.narrowed*  
*Structured data: https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-real-people.narrowed.json*  
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