Word: clannish
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...These economic tensions, added to the age-old stereotypes of the Madurese as clannish, threatening and rude, made it easy to roil the Dayaks. Combine that with the Dayak claim that all Madurese men carry knives which they are all too willing to use, and the Madurese become in Dayak eyes a perfect scapegoat for their woes. It is easier, after all, to blame the Madurese next door for Dayak problems than the central government in Jakarta...
...that there were no tensions. Mormon culture, for all its energy and sterling family values, can seem triumphal and even clannish to outsiders. Ken Millard, a Latter-day Saint who is also Nauvoo's city planner, admits that even after a century's exile, some Mormon tourists exhibited "an arrogance and ownership" regarding the town. Main Street merchants traded stories about shoppers who, arriving at the checkout, inquired, "Are you a Saint?" and if the answer was no, walked out, leaving the clerk holding...
...brainwashing to which we refer is the clannish, us-against-them mentality Hepps embraces. Witness her view of gentiles who would marry Jews: "How can [Alan] Dershowitz dare ask Jews to welcome those who are contributing...to their destruction?" If Hepps is so opposed to welcoming non-Jews, one can only imagine (and cringe at) the approach she would favor. At worst, Jews would teach their children that only other Jews are worthy of their love, respect, and admiration--that people who are different are unacceptable and must be excluded. Hepps's views could easily incite the kind of ignorant...
Judaism must become less tribal, less ethnocentric, less exclusive, less closed off, less defensive, less xenophobic, less clannish. We jokingly call ourselves "members of the tribe" (MOTs), as if to remind us of our tribal origins. But we are not a tribe, a clan, or even an ethnicity. Jews comprise many ethnicities, as a visit to Israel or even to [some] neighborhoods of Brooklyn should make plain. This persistent tribalism makes us less welcoming of Jewish converts than we ought...
...film is set in eighteenth century Scotland, a time, a rolling script informs us, of great hardship for the Scots. In an age of corruption and despair, Robert Roy MacGregor (Liam Neeson) upholds the ancient clannish honor. Supported by his bonny red-haired wife Mary (Jessica Lange) and a host of loyal MacGregors, Rob Roy matches wits and brawn with the dastardly Archibald Cunningham (Tim Roth), bewigged defiler (and then some) of the MacGregor name...