Word: tribalized
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...latitudes they inhabit and the way they pronounce three consonant sounds. Language differences are tantamount to those of a person from Atlanta and one from Boston. Racial and religious characteristics among the ethnic Vietnamese, who comprise some 85 per cent of the country's population, are virtually undifferentiated. Tribal minorities, who generally inhabit the interior highlands in both the North and South, show a wide diversity of language and culture...
...existence of a tribe when no political and legal consequences would ensue. The decision expresses a calculated caution. The judge notes that because of the "severe consequences" of declaring the Indians a tribe--returning the land to the Indians--he believes he had to establish a rigorous definition of tribal status. But he also states in the decision that the Indians may still be considered a tribe "for other purposes, such as Federal aid programs...
...Robert Mugabe, whose Soviet-and Cuban-backed guerrillas, poised along the Rhodesian border, are now believed to number 12,000. The fear is that Smith's limited solution will not lead to peaceful black rule but to a black-against-black civil war among the rival political and tribal factions...
...Prime Ministers Michael Manley of Jamaica and Forbes Burnham of Guyana. Despite their great differences, these socialisms have several things in common. First, all these societies call themselves socialists, although their beliefs may be rooted less in Marxism than in nationalism or an indigenous phenomenon like the communalism of tribal Africa. Second, largely because of their experience with colonialism, they reject capitalism as identifiable with imperialism and exploitation. Third, they pursue policies aimed at decreasing the role of private property in the economy and sharply curbing investment by private foreign firms...
...those who refuse to become part of the extended family, there is a price to pay. They are 'ostracized and denied important services. If their ailing children are sent to the tribal shaman rather than the clinic, the parents may be denied the permits required to take a long bus trip or change jobs. An unemployed villager who refuses a job in the tinsmithy or furniture shop will be banished from Luhanga because it is assumed that, out of work, he will soon start stealing...