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This is the same issue I was thinking about after class today. I came to the conclusion that we categorize to have some sort of organization and structure in our everyday lives. What would happen if we didn't have this method of organization in our lives, you ask; total chaos is the simplest way to describe it. We like to group things for simplicity like grocery stores and genre. If you wanted to watch a horror film and not a romantic comedy, you would be able to separate out possibilities based on those categories. Politics is just used to categorize people with similar outlooks on life and world issues. That's why saying you're a democrat or republican has a wealth of meaning behind it other than the word. I think categorizing is a necessary evil in our lives.