system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
Why have people always been so against taking in refugees or immigrants? Is it just a simple case of an "Us vs.Them" mentality? Or something deeper?
gpt
Not all peoples or cultures have been against immigrants through all of time. Using specific language is important because "people" are not a monolith. For an explaination not on the history but on modern fear of immigrants please read the book Fear of Small Numbers by Arjun Appardurai. It's a great book on this topic and it's very thin.