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Human beings appear to have an inherent tendency to divide the world into Self and Other. These categories operate in the mind as primary organizing ideas that influence the way we imagine and engage in social relationships. They are mental containers for a series of images and thoughts that range from the microcosmic to the macrocosmic: the Self can be conceptualized as “I” or as the entire universe and, similarly, the Other can be “you” or something as large as nature. An entity that is viewed as an Other in one situation comes to be seen as part of the Self in an alternative placement; for example, a rival group is incorporated into the larger Self in the situations where one identifies with all of humanity (Karim & Eid, 2012).
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Karim, K.H. (2014). Islamic, Islamist, Moderate, Extremist: Imagining the Muslim Self and the Muslim Other. In: Eid, M., Karim, K.H. (eds) Re-Imagining the Other. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137403667_8
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