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{{quote|''"This is my side, that's your side! This is my side, you stay on your side! My side, your side, my side, your side, ''my'' side... ''your'' side!"''|'''Stark''', ''[[Farscape]]''}}

 

 

If two characters that don't like each other, or who happen to be angry with each other at the moment, live in one house or apartment, one of them will be eventually seen painting a white line in the middle of the residence, explaining: "This is my side; this is yours. Don't go on my part!" Naturally, it's [[Serious Business]].

* East and West Germany, with the most visible part being the Berlin Wall. This was taken to such an extreme that when the Berlin U-Bahn was divided, a couple of ghost stations existed where the trains passed through on the wrong side of the wall.

* Nation-states can arise from this trope writ large. Especially if a country is internally divided later on. Especially when one considers how language, culture, and all the meaningful aspects of individuals and collectives fade one into the other without as clear-cut barriers as those imposed by the current multi-governmental system, and within a single government many idiolects, microcultures and such co-exist without barriers.

* This trope was played ''extremely'' straight by Mitford sisters Unity and Jessica. Unity was an ardent Nazi; her sister Jessica, three years younger, was a similarly-ardent communist. They shared a room. In [[The Great Depression|the '30s]]. They very quickly took a piece of chalk to the floor, dividing the room in two. On Unity's side were innumerable swastikas and pictures of [[Adolf Hitler]]. On Jessica's were similarly innumerable hammers and sickles and pictures of [[Vladimir Lenin]]. [[The Glorious War of Sisterly Rivalry]], indeed.

* Tell the truth. How many of you did this with your sibling(s) in the back seat of the family car, or have kids that do this now?

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