Othering!

We can see othering in every where in the world. As stated in the article, othering is is how we differentiate into social categories and those social categories shape our ideas about who we think we are, how we want to be seen by others, and the groups to which we belong. This is something that humans do naturally because of our instincts. Just like in the Cry, The Beloved Country, society is all based upon othering. The white Africans put themselves higher than the black Africans. They see the black Africans nothing more than lower class citizens.

My 17 years on Earth, I also experience a lot of “othering”. In ICS I see that most Thai students are more arrogant because they feel like ICS is a Thai school. I see that some Thai students would put other races below them as if they rule the school. Due to the wealth and the majority, Thai students think that they run the school because we are in Thailand and they are rich. As I observe some of my friends, I feel that they tend to think that they are the most important in the diversity group because they are just Thai. These students would run their mouth around and talk behind their back because how these “farangs” are so poor and not highly educated as them. From my own perspective I feel like I didn’t do anything like this because I have a lot of best friend that aren’t Thai. But learning at ICS for my whole life I have saw many incidents from my peers and upper clansmen.