Who’s Us in Us vs. Them? - WhoWhatWhy

Who’s Us in Us vs. Them? - WhoWhatWhy

I want to look at a theme we’ve explored recently, and put a very fine point on it. The theme: “Us vs. Them.” Who’s Us in Us vs. Them? If you see the world in an Us vs. Them way, “us” is Americans, or more broadly, citizens of the West, and “them” is the non-Western world: the brown, the global south, the technologically less advanced; the tribal, in many cases; the less city-fied. Thus — and this has been true since the so-called Age of Explora…