Framing one individual and/or group by a different individual and/or group has been a historical exercise of humans since human existence. In much earlier periods, humans used to live in closely-knit groups and hence differences were largely notable in outgroups rather than between members of ingroups. By expansion, mass migration and climate change humans came to experience radically different framings of different others as languages and lifestyles started to diverge dramatically. Time and space both shed expanding human communities in much broader spectra of (non)favorable lights. The "Other" has emerged as a distinctive identifier against an evolving "Self", Continue reading...