&gt; Who is the group X that started the routine of saying &quot;we are group X and we are special and isolated from the rest of human kind because of our unique suffering and&#x2F;or significance&quot;?<p>No one knows -- that pattern is evidenced as far back as recorded history goes pretty much everywhere in the world; its definitely older than writing, and quite possibly as old as the ability to communicate sophisticated enough concepts to express it.