Jonathan Haidt of NYU advises that if you want…
Page 295. Jonathan Haidt of NYU advises that if you want to create a thick institution, you should call attention to the traits people have in common, not the ones that set them apart. Second, exploit synchrony. Third create healthy competition among teams not individuals.
— from Friends, Community & Society (Relationships/Community/Society)
In the book
It is rarer than we like to think for a member of a majority group to form a real friendship across the line into a minority one. The antidote, the social scientists find, is to deliberately call attention to the traits people hold in common rather than the ones that set them apart, and to keep our focus on how arbitrary most of our animosities really are. [Here is the place for my own turbulence — write in, or let me tell you, about the loneliness of my early years. — Friends, Community & Society (Relationships/Community/Society)