Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The organization, culture, or beliefs of a tribe.
- noun A strong feeling of identity with and loyalty to one's tribe or group.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state of existing in separate tribes; tribal relation or feeling.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The state of existing in tribes; also, tribal feeling; tribal prejudice or exclusiveness; tribal peculiarities or characteristics.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The condition of being
tribal - noun A feeling of
identity andloyalty to one'stribe
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the state of living together in tribes
- noun the beliefs of a tribal society
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Examples
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Ameri says it is Gaddafi's regime that introduced the use of the term "tribalism", and did so to "crush the confidence of those in their own western Libya cities" as well as to "confuse outsiders into believing that the Gaddafi regime is all that's holding together a fractured and disunited people".
The Guardian World News Mark Tran 2011
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But that doesn't excuse the tribalism from the people with my skin color who want to deprive honest and hardworking people of the chance to make it in a free society because they don't happen to have a high-IQ.
A Childish Question About Immigration, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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With a "cold" marketplace filled with anonymous entities, the irrationality of nationalism and tribalism is replaced by the peaceful, harmonic, and natural rationality of individualism.
Hostility Toward Economics, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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This kind of politicized tribalism is something we've seen forever in third world countries, without understanding it.
Obama Cartoon 2008
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“Such tribalism is not necessary in the same way now, yet we still have those characteristics because they have evolved over two million years.”
Male managers as animal show-offs ewillett 2008
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This kind of politicized tribalism is something we've seen forever in third world countries, without understanding it.
SeeLight: 2008
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That sort of inane tribalism is one of the things I dislike the most about politics.
Small Dead Animals And Kinsella Holocaust Victims « Unambiguously Ambidextrous 2008
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But tribalism is at the heart of this in all sorts of ways: attempting to suppress it in the majority, while encouraging it in the ever-growing roll-call of minorities, is not a recipe for a peaceful future.
The Heretical 2: Requests for Asylum and Letters from Santa Ana Jail 2008
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But tribalism is at the heart of this in all sorts of ways: attempting to suppress it in the majority, while encouraging it in the ever-growing roll-call of minorities, is not a recipe for a peaceful future.
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Churchill understands that while tribalism is not the highest good, it provides cohesion in places that would otherwise unravel.
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