In the in-group it was so far from being an act of hostility, or veiled impropriety, that it was applied to the closest kin. |
So far as sympathy was developed at all, it was in the in-group, between comrades. |
The problem, then, is to define the out-group in such a way that people can abandon this group and join the in-group. |
This control by the in-group over its members makes for solidity and impenetrability in its relations with the out-group. |
This heightened awareness becomes personally relevant when one commits to identifying with the ethnic in-group. |
You'd have formed your own in-group, as prisoners, dedicated to your own welfare. |