Samuel Huntington. The clash of civilizations (№ 285794)

In social psychology there is a theory of distinctiveness, which argues that people define themselves with what distinguishes them from others in the circumstances: "everyone is aware of himself in terms of those characteristics that distinguish it from other people, especially people from his ordinary social environment a woman psychologist in the company of dozens of women in other professions is to think of himself as a psychologist; being next to a dozen male psychologists, she is going to feel like a woman". People define their identity with what they are not.