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Perception.

The 'us' and 'them' mentality generates division. Everything boils down to that.

I'd have to say class, but not only lower class, middle class, etc. But also the classes people create in place like schools. Serious division created by that.

Hmmm, I'd have to say that generation divides families the most, religion/Nationality/race is just a general thing - since everyone's a little bit racist (http://noodlegirl55.tripod.com/s_A_Little_Bit_Racist.mp3) (that's a song) - and lastly comes class/fame, which, I'm thinking, is mainly about jealousy of the lower class and feeling of importance and all that jazz of the upper class/more famous ones.

I don't know which one would the most. Still thinking

Ignorance.....

I believe its nationality.

The nation you are born in determines (in most cases) your enviornment. Meaning culture, languages, beliefs, and the way you look (in most cases...such as Chinese people USUALLY look Asian).

Put an American low-class man with a high-class man. They'll have something to talk about (eventually)

Put a random Canadian with a random man from Azerbaijen (sp?), you'll be lucky if they'll be able to say hello to each other and understand each other.

I'd say culture, not nationality but that's the closest one.

Put a random Canadian with a random man from Azerbaijen (sp?), you'll be lucky if they'll be able to say hello to each other and understand each other.

Yeah.. that's what I figure too.. I could sit in a room with a dozen people who earn the same wage as I do and enjoy the same quality of life that I do, and I'd have almost nothing in common with them if they were from Europe or Asia or Africa.. at least, not nearly as much in common as I would have with someone from my neighborhood's wealthy or poor districts..

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I believe its nationality.

The nation you are born in determines (in most cases) your enviornment. Meaning culture, languages, beliefs, and the way you look (in most cases...such as Chinese people USUALLY look Asian).

Put an American low-class man with a high-class man. They'll have something to talk about (eventually)

Put a random Canadian with a random man from Azerbaijen (sp?), you'll be lucky if they'll be able to say hello to each other and understand each other.

That's interesting. As a Brit, I'd say it was class. Put me in with another middle class man/woman, white/asian/black, older/younger etc etc and assuming we spoke the same language, we'd get on on a surface level, talk, understand one another. Certainly questons of religion/nationality wouldn't really occur to me as the deal-breaker.

So I guess it's, overall, culture that divides us in the differences of 'what we think divides us the most' is!

Elgesh']That's interesting. As a Brit, I'd say it was class. Put me in with another middle class man/woman, white/asian/black, older/younger etc etc and assuming we spoke the same language, we'd get on on a surface level, talk, understand one another. Certainly questons of religion/nationality wouldn't really occur to me as the deal-breaker.

So I guess it's, overall, culture that divides us in the differences of 'what we think divides us the most' is!
Yes, I suppose it's culture then.

But then again, I highly doubt that Canadians think of themselves as equals to Americans from what I've heard from them.

So perhaps more so nationality...?

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I'd say none of the above.
I'd say that our 'divided-ness' is fundamentally a consequence of our individuality. Of course if we have choice we will at least be different, if not opposed and divided.
I know that I for one don't want to be the same as everybody else, I want my own subjective will to influence the objective world, and I imagine many others feel the same way.
Surely, conflict could arise from that feeling?

Even people of the same nationality, of the same class, of the same race, can be and are divided against one another. I don't think any of the things you listed are a fundamental cause of division, because if you remove what one set of opposing groups are divided by, someone will find something else to be divided over.
I think it's just the way free choice works.

Apparently it's the issue of circumcision.

Depending on how you define culture I'd have to say it isn't really that much of a divide. This is from my own experience. Even language isn't has big a divide as think it is. There are ways to communicate other than verbally.

Ultimately it is just how open minded you and the other person are.

Having spent 3 months of my live in Uzbekistan, living with an Uzbek family, and knowing virtually no Russian or Uzbek (I think I could say hi, please and thank you before I got on the plane - and that was only from a blitz session the night before). I can honnestly say that none of the poll options (and I include fame, as we got reconised in the streets), nor culture, nor language presented that much of a problem. However, I do remember trying to explain, with my hands, to the mum, of the house I was staying in, that I'd been to the library that day. I later found out she thought I meant the disco :confused:.

edit: Yep, infact all the problems we did come up against could be traced by to individuality or just someone being tired and a bit grumpy and judgemental.