One of the argument that Sibley makes about cultures and communities that create "the other" is by excluding other people with certain characteristics and personalities that we may find alarming or frightening. In the passage, "Feelings about Difference, Borders of Community" by David Sibley, It states "Exclusionary discourse draws particularly on colour, disease, animals, sexuality and nature, but they all come back to the idea of dirt as a signifier of imperfection and inferiority, the reference point being the white, often male, physically and mentally able person(185)."