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marylandblue

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47. Please provide a definition of tribalism

Tue Jan 23, 2018, 09:58 PM

Jan 2018

I can't figure out how you are using the term. You seem to be defining it as "any interaction between two or more people," but if so, then all of your discussions of nationalism, religion etc. being a form of tribalism become meaningless tautologies. Any interaction between two or more people such as nationalism, religion, family, economy etc. would in fact be interactions between two or more people.

Do you have some other definition in mind, such that tribalism is not just another name for "social interactions?"

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