The "Other" (or "Constitutive Other") is a concept of the identity of difference that is discussed within some works of Continental philosophy and in the social sciences, such as across the taxonomies of anthropology. The state or characteristic of "the other/Other" is "being different [from] or [alien to]" the identity of self or social identities. As such, the "other/Other" is perceived as dissimilar or opposite to being "us" or the Same.