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Life and theory both demand an explanation of the groups that surround us. In everyday life, immigration, globalization, multiculturalism, and inequality are changing personal experiences with other kinds of people, so as individuals, we need to make sense of them. In scientific theory, researchers investigating social cognition and prejudice spent the last century devising process models of how people relate as individuals and groups. What researchers mostly neglected were content models—taxonomies—of the systematic kinds of impressions that people form.That is the way i conceptualize stereotype 

Othering is a phenomenon in which some individuals or groups are defined and labeled as not fitting in within the norms of a social group. It is an effect that influences how people perceive and treat those who are viewed as being part of the in-group versus those who are seen as being part of the out-group.

Here, we raise some aspects of contemporary Western culture as a putative correlate of mental distress by comparatively discussing cultural characteristics of countries that show discrepancies in the prevalence of mental disorders. Our interest lies in the large gray area of subjective suffering, regarded as depressive and anxiety disorders, where epidemiological data show the highest cross-cultural divergence.