We need to stop creating mental divides and see the people around us as our common humanity.

• We all feel pain and suffering.
• We all die eventually.
• We all lose our loved ones.

The way to recognize that we are 'them-ing' other people is to catch those subtle moments when we lose empathy, we use stereotypes, we discriminate, cast out or punish anyone.

For more than two million years, our human ancestors lived in small groups that they considered their own. They created a demarcation of us vs them, as people cared and cooperated with people in their own tribe while fearing and aggressing people ou...