People with a predominant experience of Defense experience cultural difference in a polarized way – us and them. They feel “under siege” by people that they stereotype in simplistic and negative ways, protecting themselves with a hardened boundary between themselves and the “others.” Typically, one’s own culture is exalted, and other cultures are denigrated with negative stereotypes. This hierarchical view of culture may lead people to assume a kind of social Darwinism wherein they place their own culture at the acme of development and civilization.