Prejudice is often the result of crossing the symbolic boundaries that preserve a group's sense of itself - boundaries that as with a nation's frontiers may in fact be real as well as symbolic.C. Cunningham, Prejudice (2000) p. 18 (The ancient ceremony of beating the bounds highlights that overlapping of real and symbolic bounds).François Laroque, Shakespeare's Festive World (1991) p. 13 Salman Rushdie has emphasised the role of the migrant as a postmodern representative, transgressing symbolic boundaries, and (potentially at least) demonised by their upholders in the host nation as a result.Salman Rushdie, Imaginary Homelands (1991) p. 278-9 and p. 402
