Word: tribalized
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...broad cross-section of society, connected with the audience on many levels. We all turned an eye inward on our own humanity while we fixed our eyes outward on the exploits of 16 strangers on an uninhabited island in the South China Sea. For instance, didn't the tribal decision to kick off Sonja, 63, and B.B., 64, early in the competition make you feel a little better about incessantly honking at that poor old man who took a couple seconds too long in the crosswalk? Didn't the wacky exploits of Brown graduate Greg convince you the liberal...
...also struggled to deal with the changing nature of warfare. U.N. peacekeeping, and even the organization itself, was established to regulate conflict between states, but since the end of the Cold War most pressing international crises have tended to be civil wars, usually along ethnic or tribal lines. More often than not the combatants have seldom been answerable to a political structure, let alone a government. That makes nonsense of the traditional U.N. peacekeeping style of absolute neutrality and keeping weapons holstered. The new style of conflict often requires intervention by an outside policing force that can be rapidly deployed...
...ndzeye pa enum yi a, na eye barima (Gather the five virtues, then you are a man). --Fante tribal proverb...
...having been in Australia for 40,000 years or more, in contrast to the whites' 200 or less, the Aborigines were not giving up. So the policy changed to assimilation. First, the Aborigines were deprived of their nomadic tribal life and concentrated in "mission stations," communities run mainly by Protestant evangelists, where they were taught the Gospels, shown white ways and prepared for low-level jobs as servants...
...case the president wanted to visit cities outside of the capital. But, amid concerns over security and fears at offending unvisited cities, the White House opted to visit only Abuja. Clinton and his daughter stepped off Air Force One early Saturday and were welcomed by a maelstrom of three tribal groups of whooping, whirling dancers - including a pair of midgets - in native garb, accompanied by pounding drums and the driving lilt of wooden flutes...