But I must recognize that my expectation, that this would never happen, is rooted in the culture in which I was raised. In this culture that would never happen. Possibly in a different culture, which I may need to work to imagine, it might happen. About ostracism, there are four points that I want to make. And I will organize this paper around these four points.
Ostracism can have great force.
Ostracism works in private spaces, not in public spaces. Ostracism gets its power from reality. The power of ostracism is limited by reality. Ostracism can have great force. Ostracism can mean death .