We, us, they, them … collective pronouns, but collecting up who? Our, your … possessive determiners, but determining what? How do these parts of speech define the world we see? How do these simple, one-syllable words, sprinkled ubiquitously throughout our speech, control how the world’s seven billion people interact with one another? How do the I and me of we and us bring harmony or disharmony among people. In the human quest for peace, security, and happiness, how do these simple self-identifiers exert such profound power over human beings—to unite and divide them by ilk, for and against each other?    More >>