Marginal group members display exaggerated haughtiness toward outsiders

Evidence

In the opposite direction, these elements are interwoven in the frequent haughtiness of subalterns, servants in noble houses, members of decimated intellectual or social circles, who actually stand at the periphery of these groups, but to the outsider represent all the more energetically the dignity of the whole circle and of its idea. — Georg Simmel, The Sociology of Georg Simmel, 6689

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s book on mediating third parties — the subaltern as self-appointed guardian/representative of the group’s dignity to outsiders. — connects to: Group marginality enabled some Germans to resist joining communal devaluation of Jews — Leonard S. Newman and Ralph Erber (eds.), Understanding Genocide: The Social…, 176; 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