lPeople are just like that. They tend to instinctively segregate themselves into comfortable social groups. Many psychological experiments have shown this result
Yes and no.
There have been lots of studies on intimate relationships, but not many on friendships. I do recall there was one study where they said, "well, what we really need is some situation where all the people meet up and nobody knows each-other, we could then see who they become friends with, and what determines whether or not they become friends."
So they looked at Army basic training. And that really made them scratch their heads, because they couldn't find anything which determined friendship, not political beliefs, introvert/extrovert, nothing like that. The one correlation was... whether their surnames were close in the alphabet. And that was really puzzling to them, until they realised that the Army assigned them bunks and rooms in alphabetical order.
In order words, people became friends with people who happened to be near them and who they saw all the time, and were not so likely to be friends with some guy they hardly ever saw.
Most people, I think, are fairly tolerant, and will try to get along with others. This is perhaps less so than it used to be. David Wong
writes about this, basically saying that our technology and lifestyle lets us filter people out based on trivialities - a bit like the way on
Seinfeld he used to dump girls after a date or two because they wore the same dress all the time or had a flinty voice or something. Because we can filter people out so easily, we often don't take the time to get to know them.
The guys in the Army, they're stuck with the same seven or so guys in their room for thirteen weeks, so they fucking well better get to like them or life will be miserable. But some geek sitting at his computer can just tell people to fuck off and never speak to them again because they
liked the Star Wars prequels or some trivial shit like that.
So I think Kellri's associates are being intolerant fucksticks mostly because, like anyone else online, they can be.