Word: tribalized
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...CHOICE for American foreign policy is clear. We can support South Africa now, helping them chart a course toward joining the club of newly democratic, economically advancing nations. Or we can sit back and watch as it deindustrializes and collapses into Lebanon-style tribal warfare, pulling the rest of southern Africa down with it. The U.S. has made an enormous investment for change in South Africa. Have we become so penny-pinching that we refuse to make the final effort to bring democracy to the nation...
...composition of the new council remains a mystery. It may embrace only technocrats or include religious and tribal leaders as well. "This is just the beginning of a process of building a political system," says Shireen Hunter, of Washington's Center for Strategic and International Studies. It may create new unpredictability, but it should also reinforce public support for the regime...
Unfortunately, "Starblood" offers no reprieve from the surrounding insanity of the fourth and sixth songs on Wings of Joy. It can only be described as a twisted tribal chant driven by the beat of Jim Shaw's drums ad made even more irritating by Alison Shaw's infantile vocals. Several other tracks on Wings of Joy also feature Jim Shaw on piano, always with rather painful results...
...studying a cultural map of the world would make the mistake of thinking Japan and the U.S. once came from the same place. The two belong almost to different universes. Each is the other's antiworld: Japan an exclusive, homogeneous Asian ocean-and-island realm, tribal, intricately compact, suppressive, fiercely focused; and the U.S. a giant of huge distances, expansive, messy, inclusive, wasteful, rich, individualist, multicultural, chaotically diverse...
Among Black students, there are variations in skin color. There are also Caribbean Blacks with a different culture from African Blacks or African-American Blacks. Hispanics include those with Mexican, Puerto Rican and Spanish parents. Native Americans have tribal differences...