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When your familiar space develops an exclusive culture

I have been going to the same gym for five years and now there is this group that always works out together and posts about their lifestyle and I feel invisible.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Social environments evolve informal hierarchies that can transform inclusive spaces into sites of belonging anxiety.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Mob psychology and belonging to a cause?”

If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.