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Iago suggests to Othello that Desdemona may have only been satisfying her curiosity by being with a black man. He says that it is only natural for people to want to be with others that are like them (a refrain sung by racists of all ages), and once her curiosity is satisfied she is bound to look for someone more like her, someone white and young and aristocratic like, oh, I don't know, like Michael Cassio maybe.

Othello is not ashamed of who he is but he is a genuinely humble person who is amazed that a person as lovely and wonderful as Desdemona could possibly love him. And it is that humility which gives rise to the doubt which Iago exploits.

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