# Social Media Undermined [[Collective Identity]] Because [[Social Media Caused Extreme Polarization in Society and Cancel Culture]], over time different groups started having differing ideas about our shared history and values, undermining our collective identity. This is especially notable in education. as school curriculums came under the purview of increasingly polarized political ideologies, leading to young people educated in different schools or different times coming away with different, and sometimes clashing, ideas about who 'we' are as a people. ![[Why the Past 10 Years of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid#^phe7gj]]