Trump, and his policy of being unabashedly America-first, has been one big example of in-grouping. In response, Carlos Slim wants Mexicans to in-group:
Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim said a united country could help the government negotiate with President Donald Trump.
Mexico needs to negotiate from a position of strength, Slim said in a Friday news conference. Slim, who gained a $50 billion fortune owning mobile network America Movil, argued the clash between Trump and Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto has brought Mexico together. Slim urged political parties in the country to unite behind Nieto.
This is just the start of the threat of a resource contraction, and already we see this. Wait until Trump steals back all our jobs, locks out their illegals thereby eliminating their remittances, smashes the drug cartels, and forces Mexico to pay for the wall. Mexico is going to have some really stunning in-grouping as all that resource-supply dries up. It wouldn’t surprise me if we have to deploy the military to keep isolated cliques from trying to breach the wall and cross over to raid our border towns.
It is coming globally. As France and Italy exit the EU, Germany, Sweden, Switzerland, and all the other EU countries will grow angry and begin to in-group themselves. The K-shift is a big game of musical chairs starting, and when the music stops, nobody will want to be without a chair for themselves.
When it counts, amygdalae always turn on, and people are recognizing that it is starting to count.
Tell others about r/K Theory, because it is good for our in-group
I remember reading last year that one writer said, and it made a lot of sense, that Mexico, since it has been a nation, has a habit of generational civil war because the government is so corrupt that at almost regular intervals, it becomes necessary for the citizens to rise up and curb the corruption. With the policy of open borders, siphoning of money into Mexico, NAFTA, and with a quarter of the Mexican population living in the US (much of it illegal), an overdue Mexican civil war has been artificially forestalled.
[…] In-grouping Is Contagious […]
This reminds of the parochial altruism view:
Humans are Parochial Altruists: Neurocognitive Foundations with Implications for Intergroup Negotiation, by Carsten K.W. De Dreu
Abstract: Humans have a stunning capacity for cooperation yet, at the same time, create and escalate conflict with often devastating consequences. Here I argue that both tendencies — to cooperate and to aggress — can be understood as manifestations of parochial altruism–the tendency to benefit, at a cost to oneself, the group to which one belongs and to fight or derogate rival out-groups. I present evidence that humans display parochialism because of in-group love more than out-group hate, that especially those with pro-social value orientations are parochial rather than universal altruists, and that parochial altruism is intuitive rather than calculated and deliberate. I conclude with the neurobiological origins of parochial altruism, focusing on the oxytonergic circuitry, and with implications for negotiation in intergroup competition and conflict.
Excellent insight.