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Bernhard PerchinigSystems belongingThe issue of membership and affiliation not carried out in severalForms throughout the history of mankind. Membership gives security, access toscarcity of resources, communication and trust, without belonging to a groupPeople can not survive. One specific group predominantly positive -Attributing negative qualities and characteristics of non-groupdesignate, is a basic pattern of the legitimacy of the exclusion of otherAvailable resources. It is found in all societies and all agesPhases in which there is not associated only excluded, but also fights orbe destroyed. By placing the story in the history of the strangenesshuman violence, the question of production and management of the "specific" and"Foreigners", but also on historical analysis and proved to be a central themeof human development.Noting the tension between self and other is a historicalConstant, but in no way means the rejection, rejection and violence againstStrangers can be seen as a natural behavior. Because in addition to the exclusion ofForeign know the story of the phases of mutual respect and recognitionpositive for both sides of the bag with a "foreign"-characterized groups. Onlyunder certain historical conditions leading to the production line betweenStrange and his account in a mutual confrontation serves to legitimize theUse of force. The suppression of aggression and not for their own groupIt is associated, and the willingness to use force in the behavioral repertoire of humanscreated as a possibility, in contrast to the animalis condition allows the human conditionHowever, the emergence of man from the fetters of nature and offers severalPossibilities for action. Human biological and anthropological explanationsXenophobia as a "natural fact" reduce man to the status of primatesand therefore are not really useful.Systems belongingA story of alienation must be in writing. It would be a pessimistIts history and realize that so far no historical affiliation vorfindbares systemstayed away from violence.Membership system can have two different design principles:Territorial systems to define spatially close affiliation membership and eithereach in a specific place or who live there all children associated with groupsSystems belonging to the biological relationship, certain properties ofHumans or a commitment to a religion or political position on the valueInclusion or exclusion criteria, and therefore no access or access to themthe managed resources. The vast majority of previously developed