TIL Narcissism of Small Differences

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The Narcissism of Small Differences is the idea that the more a relationship or community shares commonalities, the more likely the people in it are to engage in interpersonal feuds and mutual ridicule because of hypersensitivity to minor differences perceived in each other.

This is one of those ideas that once I learned about it – I see it everywhere. I also try to remember it when fighting a larger cause. For example, it’s easy to be annoyed at scooters in the bike lane…but that’s just a distraction from the larger commonality against space taken up by cars.

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