Title: Psychology of Marginalization
Headings: Psychology of Marginalization
Psychology of Marginalization
Psychology of Marginalization
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Content: This emotion has the ability to consume groups of people entirely and manifests itself into feelings like disgust, vindictiveness, abhorrence and more. All of this can be seen in the way the Germans marginalize the Jews. Although they have no concrete reason to detest the other racial group, they allow the emotion to swallow them up completely. Because they are passive to Hitler’s influence, they reveal a baseless malevolence towards the Jewish community who are only innocent people trying to survive a war that they never intended to be a part of. Also, with Hitler in power, “he has made it clear that he will annihilate all Jews before the clock strikes twelve” (Wiesel 45). A main factor that ties itself into marginalization is power. With this concept, a power play is constantly in effect between the centers as well as the margins. With the centers needing dominance, they do whatever they can to renegade the other group towards the edge of society. They see themselves as superior and more deserving so they do whatever they can to oppress and hinder the ones classified as the margins. The Germans in this case are the ones who have the delusion of supremacy.