Word: tribalized
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Each atrocity has its own circumstances, its own atmosphere and triggers, its tribal antipathies and peer-group expectations. It is interesting that the one police officer who expressed some objection during the Los Angeles beating was a woman -- a member of the California highway patrol, not the L.A.P.D. She was not entirely part of the men's club that was doing the pounding...
Such a prospect makes leaders in Turkey, Iran, Syria and to a lesser extent the Soviet Union uneasy. It is not that the Kurds spread across these countries are likely to join arms and fight en masse for a united homeland. Tribal loyalties have prevented the Kurds from developing that kind of cohesion. In fact, Kurds have at times betrayed their fellow nationals, as when Iraqi Kurds in the early 1970s conspired against Iranian Kurds in return for Tehran's support for the Iraqi group's fight against Baghdad. But the fear is that if the Kurds in Iraq succeed...
...much value in the doctrine of the Trinity, or in the belief that Jesus Christ was sent to save fallen humanity from sin. St. Paul, the missionary of Christianity to the Gentiles, was a repressed and "self-loathing" homosexual. As for the Old Testament, it contains a "vicious tribal code of ethics" attributed to a "sadistic" God. The idea that Yahweh bestowed the Promised Land upon the Israelites is "arrogance...
...releasing, and the media went on using, comparative statistics that did resemble scores, accompanied by bombing footage that often called to mind a Nintendo video game in which the U.S. team was skunking the opposition. It has often been said that sport is the modern lightning rod for the tribal loyalties once stirred by war. If so, it may not be surprising that war should be covered like sport, with tub-thumping emphasis on how one- sidedly the home team will win. But sports fans crave the illusion of a guaranteed future. In war, misguided optimism can be as dangerous...
...flooding into the middle of their religious ceremonies and disturb areas rich in medicinal plants and yellow ocher earth paint needed for those rituals. "How would you like it if I took my picnic basket, my family and dog into your church while you were praying?" asks Bill TallBull, tribal elder of the Northern Cheyenne...