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Group 1:
Question 1. What is a stereotype? How does it relate to the idea of community?
Question 2. Berreby explores how stereotypes are a part of "serious problems like racism, prejudice, and injustice". What do these have to do with college community?
Question 3. What does Berreby believe about college's influence on students?
Question 4. Berreby mentions that "an essential trait separates them from the rest of humanity-the same sort of feeling most Americans have about races, ethnic groups, and religions" . What does he mean here? Do you agree that we tend to see ourselves as more separate or more alike? Explain your thinking.
Question 5. How do Buckley's ideas about feeling a kindred spirit feeling when seeing a Yale man relate to the ideas of community?
Group 2:
Question 6. Berreby mentions that "Students don't just attend a college; they join its tribes" . What does he mean here? In your own educational experience, do you agree with this assessment? Are there any factors about college age students that might make this experience different than at elementary, middle or high school?
Question 7. What are some benefits of joining a tribe when compared to attending college? Are there any drawbacks or issues that might result from this level of participation in a community?
Question 8. Berreby quotes biologist Sapolsky when he says "the onset of college tribalism is just a part of campus life" . What does this mean? How is this idea connected to any of either the assumptions about community that Latterell explores or the ideas about community found in Caudron and Ascharya's essays?