For collectivists, group membership and relationships constitute personal identity

Evidence

1. If you know what groups I belong to, you know who I am. 2. To know who I really am, you must see me with members of my group. 3. My relationships with others are a very important part of who I am. 4. My happiness depends on the happiness of those around me. 5. In some ways, my relationships with others make me who I am. 6. I will sacrifice my self-interest for the benefit of the group I am in. — Leonard S. Newman and Ralph Erber (eds.), Understanding Genocide, 1110

Categorization

• XREF: Operationalizes the interdependent self-construal and inclusion-need mechanisms the reader wants bridged to powerful-minority scapegoating; connects to Glick’s ingroup-outgroup threat work. — connects to: Personal identity is largely an outcome of status appraisal — W. David Marx, Status and Culture: How Our Desire for…, 296; Collectivist values of obedience, tradition, safety, and order breed territorial group thinking. — Leonard S. Newman and Ralph Erber (eds.), Understanding Genocide: The Social…, 1025; Salient group membership replaces personal identity with a collective self (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Salient group membership replaces personal identity with a collective self #expands (0.85)
• Collective identity shifts personal goals toward the group’s welfare #expands (0.80) — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 548
• Individualism and collectivism differ chiefly in in-group identity and loyalty #corroborates (0.75) — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 1598
• Collectivists describe roles while individualists describe group categories #contradicts (0.75) — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 1626