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Message: <blockquote data-quote="doctorbadwolf" data-source="post: 7984474" data-attributes="member: 6704184">A person prone to genuine introspection and practiced in objective study (ie scientific thinking and analysis) who is part of the group will have a more robust, honest, accurate, insight into the group, including things which are founded in a shared experience, which someone who is ultimately outside the group cannot share. I can talk to another white person about what it's like to be a white hispanic man, but if they are not hispanic, and did not grow up in a partly hispanic home, they can't fully understand it like another person from a similar background can. No amount of study can replace growing up hearing spanish but only learning english because your grandma grew up getting in trouble in school for speaking spanish, and because your cousins don't consider you hispanic because you look whiter than them. I can explain these things, and you can gain an acedemic understanding, but you will not understand them emotionally. People, including people groups, are more emotional than logical. Trying to understand other people only via a logical lense will always, unavoidably, lead to an incomplete understanding.</blockquote>