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You really need to explain what you mean because his explanation seems to make sense to me.

>it's their perception of "an average member of the community" that may be skewed rather than perception of self.

My problem is with the word "rather." It can be any degree of either in combination.

You could argue that the two are intwined: how much of a 'self' do we really have that is not strongly linked to 'our' community?