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All good people agree, And all good people say, All nice people, like Us, are We And every one else is They.
-Rudyard Kipling, "A Friend of the Family"
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- Human kinds, whose memberships fall between All and One, map a much more variegated world than that one-size-fits-all label Homo sapiens. Some human kinds are types, like cranky old men and plumbers. Others are cultures, like Basques and Thais. Some are old and populous, like the category Japanese or Jain; others are smallscale and recent, like "former graduate students of Steven Pinker.
- Human kinds are infinitely divisible: examine one, and you find inside it subcategories and, inside those, still more.
- Some human kinds make sense only because members see and depend on each other every day, like the soldiers in a combat unit.
- In other words, human kinds serve so many different needs, there is no single recipe for making one.
- Why is all this variety possible? That's not a question that can be answered by looking at the political, economic, or cultural aspects of human kinds, as important as those aspects are.
- Yet a human who went through life like that would not know what "our kind" of food is, or enjoy "our kind" of music, or know what "we do" when someone dies.
- Which brings up the dark side: people are killed for nothing more than their membership in the "wrong" tribes

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