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There are billions of other people who are completely different than each other. They all have different thoughts, desires, and attitudes about the lives they live, and often times these thoughts cause people to clash and bicker. This alone is a daunting notion to consider, and it sheds some light on the forces that influence human behavior within large crowds. Rudyard Kipling describes a trend, stating, “All the people like us are We, and everyone else is They.” He explains that people isolate themselves into congruent cliques. At the same time, they flee from things that are alien and peculiar. When it comes to interactions in society, people tend to surround themselves with those who are similar to them and reject those who aren’t similar,

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