Well, it seems like it’s still the case in situations where people can’t (or won’t) leave their tribes. For example, men and women aren’t usually each other’s outgroup and in situations where no one plans or gives indication of “leaving” a gender, it’s still bad for say men who have all intentions of remaining men to signal too much knowledge of girly movies, chick flicks etc.. But that works in the other cases I brought up—the local citizen who is too into foreign stuff might pack up and leave, or a nerd/jock/artsy person who is too into the other clique’s stuff might also switch peer groups.
I feel like things in some cases may be driven by “neutral” outsider stuff competing for attention/time/cost from “good” ingroup stuff, even in situations where you don’t leave your ingroup, so maybe it’s “bad” in a non-zero sum way even in situations where you don’t see the outsider stuff as bad in absolute terms (i.e., why don’t you spend more effort on ingroup stuff, which would be “even better”, even if I’m not opposed to outsider stuff?).
Well, it seems like it’s still the case in situations where people can’t (or won’t) leave their tribes. For example, men and women aren’t usually each other’s outgroup and in situations where no one plans or gives indication of “leaving” a gender, it’s still bad for say men who have all intentions of remaining men to signal too much knowledge of girly movies, chick flicks etc.. But that works in the other cases I brought up—the local citizen who is too into foreign stuff might pack up and leave, or a nerd/jock/artsy person who is too into the other clique’s stuff might also switch peer groups.
I feel like things in some cases may be driven by “neutral” outsider stuff competing for attention/time/cost from “good” ingroup stuff, even in situations where you don’t leave your ingroup, so maybe it’s “bad” in a non-zero sum way even in situations where you don’t see the outsider stuff as bad in absolute terms (i.e., why don’t you spend more effort on ingroup stuff, which would be “even better”, even if I’m not opposed to outsider stuff?).