Word: tribalized
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...this year. The M.P.s resigned over an amendment to the longstanding Land Tenure Act that contained the Smith government's first important, if belated concessions on segregation. The R.A.P. is determined to limit the number of blacks who may vote and to restrict their political rights to the tribal homelands This hard-line stance has a strong appeal to white voters. But most observers feel that Smith's sense of timing is as acute as ever-and that he will probably win another mandate. "Smith still sees himself as the man who can save the position...
...blacks are not like your blacks. They are much closer to their primitive tribal origins. Tribal animosities and differences between black Africans-differences of language and culture-are profound. Given these differences, a unitary state would be torn by tribal hostilities. Possibly true...
...idea of "homelands" (quasi-independent territories for the blacks more or less based on tribal areas) is not as absurd as you usually make it out to be, because millions of black Africans do have deep attachments to the tribal areas where they were born and raised. True...
...West's. In any event, one must remember that in a sense Africa is our common past (through fossil finds of increasing antiquity, man's evolutionary origins have been traced to East Africa). Besides, there are intimations in Africa's remnants of unspoiled nature, of secure tribal life, that we have lost something in what we regard as our gains. But the greatest of these gains is indeed crucial: Western technology is an unprecedented equalizing force, largely erasing the differences of tradition, culture, race that white South Africans have enshrined as religion...
...playgoer were unfamiliar with the story, Serban's version might convince him that he had happened upon some weird and obscure tribal ritual...