What we consider abnormal behavior has been, is and will be the result of the dislocation of territory, as any biologist could suggest. This concept seems to be beyond the many psychologists and educationlists and counselors who have responded to recent school and urban shootings. Territorialism is the supreme peacemaker, and a violation of one s territory stimulates reactions that tend toward the aggressive and, possibly, violent. Xenophobia is real, and its relation to territory also is very real. It is built into each of us, and for good reasons.
Xenophobia keeps socially integrated groups separated.
Whether that separation is accomplished through active territorial defense, through sophisticated acceptance of territorial defense, through active group antagonisms, or as in a herd through indifference, group identity is effected and social space is confirmed. However, numerous things can happen that will destroy territorial social space, and then disorder will occur, and this disorder can effect a social group or an individual. Does it have to relate to only high school. Of course, not. This can be recognized in any buckers or corporate structure.