Word: tribalized
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...Only a handful of great powers of the distant past -- Pharaonic Egypt and Imperial Rome, most notably -- managed to maintain a distinct national identity while embracing, and being ruled by, an ethnic melange. The most ethnically diverse contemporary power, the Soviet Union, is beset with secessionist demands and near tribal conflicts. But such comparisons are flawed, because those empires were launched by conquest and maintained through an aggressive military presence. The U.S. was created, and continues to be redefined, primarily by voluntary immigration. This process has been one of the country's great strengths, infusing it with talent and energy...
...South African Trade Unions, whose vision is of a unified black majority taking over the reins of power. On the other is Zulu chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi, president of the 1.5 million-strong Inkatha Movement and an old antagonist of the A.N.C., who has a strong investment in the traditional tribal and economic structure...
...country was off limits to tourists. When he deposed his father in 1970, Sultan Qaboos bin Said took over one of the world's most primitive nations. With revenues from oil, first discovered in 1954, the Sultan superimposed the infrastructure of a modern state on Oman's tribal society. In 1985, celebrating 15 years on the throne, Qaboos hosted a meeting of Arab rulers at the Al Bustan Palace Hotel, a marble-and-tile monument to Arabian opulence on a mountain-ringed bay near Muscat. It was a sort of coming-out party, signaling the end of Oman's virtual...
Buoyed by the whiff of freedom in the South African air, the country's blacks strained to break one of apartheid's shackles last week by rising up against the Pretoria-installed leaders of two tribal homelands. In coastal Ciskei, army officers overthrew the government of "President for Life" Lennox Sebe. In Bophuthatswana, in north-central South Africa, troops and police rushed in to quell a popular revolt against President Lucas Mangope. Security forces also braced for trouble in Venda, in the country's northern...
Which brings us to Donald and Ivana Trump. I recuse myself, on the grounds stated above. While I am at it, I should mention Geraldo Rivera. Also professional golf. The baby-boom generation, at least when it puts on its self-regarding tribal panoply. The collected works of Sylvester Stallone. Deconstruction. The Super Bowl. The northward migration of the killer bees. Magazine articles that describe "Blank's Lonely Fight Against Blank." Anything that Jean-Paul Sartre ever wrote, said or thought. The intellectual life of Roseanne Barr. The works of Erica Jong, who once composed a poem with this line...