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Originally posted by chavos
But, if in certain areas there are high numbers of certainly colored birds,you say that's a social construction?
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I don't say that the fact they have different colors is only a social construction.
I'm saying that your belief system, language, and experience would lead you to differentiate between birds with blue tinges on their wingtips while I might differentiate between yellow crests on their heads.
That's the social construction part--that our culture will lead us to pay attention to certain things and not others.
The second part of the claim is that, with people we have negative experiences with or those we don't understand, we are more likely to select and define from the larger group a particular set of features in order to distinguish between in-groups and out-groups.