"us-and-them" meaning in English

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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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      "examples": [
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          "ref": "1987, New York Magazine",
          "text": "Good football teams always have an us-and-them mentality; there are the 45 players and their coaches, and then there is everybody else.",
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          "ref": "1992, Jack Dunham, Stress in Teaching",
          "text": "[…] one of the major concerns by staff is the lack of social contact with an SMT and an 'us and them' syndrome developing.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2006, Keith Oatley, Dacher Keltner, Jennifer M Jenkins, Understanding Emotions",
          "text": "We described above how a solution to the problem of interpersonal feuding has been to devolve such feuds to an authority such as the police. But what if the police behave in an us-and-them way?",
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        "Being or pertaining to a divisive belief whereby those outside one's immediate circle are regarded as enemies."
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          "belief",
          "belief"
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          "circle",
          "circle"
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        [
          "enemies",
          "enemy"
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        {
          "word": "us versus them"
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          "word": "us-and-them-ism"
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          "word": "campism"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "us versus them"
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    {
      "word": "us-and-them-ism"
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          "text": "Good football teams always have an us-and-them mentality; there are the 45 players and their coaches, and then there is everybody else.",
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