Word: tribalization
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Scott and the NACH co-sponsored the Foundation’s screening of the 1993 made-for-television movie “Medicine River” this past Wednesday. The film stars legendary Native American actor Graham Greene as an estranged Canadian Indian endeavoring to reconcile himself to tribal culture after his mother’s untimely demise...
...charismatic and compelling, but I’ll be a monkey’s uncle if he isn’t. The little harpsichord-type thingy is so eerie and sun-drenched, it’s hard to believe this guy was from NYC and not an island of tribal warriors that worshipped him as a Brando-style god. “I see some laydeez tonight that should be havin’ my baby, baby.” Can I be one of those laydeez, Christopher? Christopher...
...naïve as to think that simply bringing people into the same room will instantly cure all of society’s ills; bias is too evolutionarily inbred into our tribal psyches for that to happen so long as visible differences exist between...
...many ways, Nyerere managed to improve the lot of his people. He instilled a sense of national pride among the country's diverse tribal groups, and promoted Ki-swahili as the national language, factors that have contributed to Tanzania's having what is perhaps the lowest level of tribal strife of any country on the continent. In addition, Tanzania's 83% literacy rate is among the highest in Africa, health care has been improved, and the government has demonstrated concern for human rights...
...another part of the world, it would be called tribal warfare. In Northern Ireland, the shootings and the bombings that have taken more than 2,500 lives over the past 17 years are more primly referred to as "the troubles." The spasms of killing have followed the ebb and flow of ancient hates and fears that divide the British province's Protestant majority and its Roman Catholic minority. Because so many attempts to break the deadly cycle of attack and revenge have ended in failure, it is a wonder that political leaders still have the courage to try again, when...