Groups prefer to subordinate to strangers or outsiders

Evidence

An essential trait of the sociological form of a group is its preference for subordination to a stranger or to somebody from its own midst; its conception of the expediency and dignity of the one or the other kind of subordination. — Georg Simmel, The Sociology of Georg Simmel, 5612

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Group-membership arbitrators tend to be blind to outsiders’ interests — Henry M. Hart, Jr. and Albert M. Sacks, The Legal Process: Basic Problems in…, 4858