My shibboleth

Question 3: I am going to speak on the idea of people leaving others out because of the way they pronounce or use a shibboleth.

I believe a linguistic password is used to separate people. Of course one can make the argument that people are grouping together to do this and the group of people that know the linguistic password are celebrating their similarities. Some of the worst and most terrible things were done by a large group of people (Inquisition, nazi regime, socialist movement in Russia, etc.). The forming of groups of people with the intent to exclude and hate another group of people are extremely dangerous. Religion is the prime example, but I'll save that for another discussion. I believe if people only wanted to emphasize similarities, they would extend that idea to EVERYONE. When the emphasize of differences out ways that of the other, bad and dangerous actions have historically been the outcome.