# second-class citizens (lesser)

*Ordinarily means:* members of a society who are denied rights or standing that other members have

Members a collective self reads as inside its boundary for the walls it sets on them and outside it for the walls it keeps for them.

- 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), [member](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-member.social), [set](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-set.fix), [keep](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-keep.maintenance), [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), [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), [wall](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-wall.range-end), [outside](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-outside.spatial)

**Through:** Two boundaries run at once: the group's power reaches these members as members, while its maintenance stops at them as though they were outside.

**Novel properties:**
- inside for duty and outside for protection
- two edges in one membership

## Examples
- From 1950, South Africa's Population Registration Act sorted residents by race, and the rights the state kept for each followed that sorting. *(history)*

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