Word: tribalized
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...that Indonesia, the world's fourth most populous nation, will fall apart just as Wahid's presidency did. The country is in deep trouble. It is emerging painfully from 32 years of the Suharto dictatorship, an era of forced social engineering and epic plunder. As the center collapses, ancient tribal and religious feuds have revived across the archipelago of 13,000 islands; 3,500 died in the violence last year. Unemployment is estimated at 40%, while corruption and economic bungling have kept foreign investment at "sub-zero," as a diplomat puts it. Most worrying of all, many observers in Jakarta...
...Tribal Self-Sufficiency...
...highly tribal atmosphere that characterizes competition football, fans of different teams rarely care to admit that they might have something in common. Yet over the past fortnight, supporters of Japanese J-League sides Urawa Red Diamonds, Cerezo Osaka and Gamba Osaka have indeed found themselves on common ground, over an uncommon event?losing a player to the high-profile, highly competitive European leagues...
...brutal reality of the Balkans could be that democracy?s ability to eradicate the region?s tribal hatreds may be overstated. At the very least, it would appear that the existence of democratic institutions does not necessarily signal the dominance of a democratic, multiethnic political culture. And that would mean the nation-building project may be so long-term as to make the Balkan peacekeeping deployments a relatively permanent affair...
...same, to do what smart marketers do, to ferret out our deepest desires--sex! power! beer!--or to bond us to brand names with the kind of tribal loyalty you ordinarily find only in the Balkans, is no easy business. It's art and science, and the ingenuity it requires is something to admire. The six people we profile in this chapter of our Innovators series have taken up the tools of anthropology, mathematics and virtual reality. No subatomic particle, no stretch of the human genome has been studied as closely as you, dear 21st century consumer. And our Innovators...