Examples:
- I had a friendship which originally started over shared nostalgia for a cantonese children show
- I was excluded from a group because I didn't know enough american pop culture references to get their jokes
- I stopped eating dinner with another group because I felt awkward being the only one not praying before the meal
- In another group, we only ever talked about programming puzzles and non-programmer friends (such as their girlfriends) learned quickly to leave us alone
All of these groups came together and/or left each other due to unwritten emergent social dynamics. You can never stop these clusters from forming. As long as you have groups/tribes, there will be people excluded based on the that tribe's values. Is that really so bad?