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DescriptionA 'Granfalloon' is a group of people whose cohesive purpose has little or no real meaning, yet whose members feel superior in some way. Granfalloons may have any or all of the following:
DiscussionScience fiction writer Kurt Vonnegut defined the term 'granfalloon', as a proud and meaningless association of human beings. When people are thrown together they tend to form a group and so build boundaries, rules and so on. Henri Tajfel brought a random set of people into his lab, flipped a coin, and randomly assigned them as either Xs or Ws. By the end of the study, total strangers were acting as if those in their granfalloon were their close kin and those in the other group were their worst enemies. See also
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