Word: tribalized
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...proposals put to Smith than anyone else had done all week. Next, Kissinger flew to Kinshasa to brief Zaïre's flamboyant President Mobutu Sese Seko, then on to Nairobi to see Kenya's venerable President Jomo Kenyatta. Led into the midst of 300 tribal dancers by his host, Kissinger attempted a few fumbling steps of his own before begging off with a quip: "Those who have seen me dance will know that we are in need of technical assistance from Kenya...
DESPITE A RECENT awakening of interest in Africa and African culture, cliched National Geographic images of tribal Africa still predominate in the American consciousness: the hunter, spear poised, body glistening and tense, the wife, child at her naked breast, ad infinitum. Completely alien to the American experience, these stereotypes only further remove the average American, black or white, from tribal modes of existence in Africa...
Harvey Cox, Thomas Professor of Divinity and a member of the Old Cambridge Baptist Church, says that Jesus did not necessarily introduce the idea of rebirth, for a rebirth practice can be found throughout preliterate tribal religious groups in Australia and Africa...
...Boston has always been a city of neighborhoods that desired and cultivated a neighborhood school system--the "ethnic purity" argument, if you will. Given the board's past efforts, however, this claim sounded like Prime Minister Vorster of South Africa explaining today that, after segregating blacks in undersized, underdeveloped "tribal homelands" ten years ago, he simply could not eliminate apartheid because the blacks demanded and thrived on homelands...
...Boston has always been a city of neighborhoods that desired and cultivated a neighborhood school system--the "ethnic purity" argument, if you will. Given the board's past efforts, however, this claim sounded like Prime Minister Vorster of South Africa explaining today that, after segregating blacks in undersized, underdeveloped "tribal homelands" ten years ago, he simply could not eliminate apartheid because the blacks demanded and thrived on homelands...