Word: tribalized
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...hippies, but also in the apolitical nature of hippie philosophy as well. Mailer's model was a white activist who shared the Negro's sense of rage at injustice; the Indian whom many hippies emulate is a primitive man whose ego is submerged in a Jungian tribal consciousness...
Living as a nomadic scavenger in his tribal area, the Aborigine eats lizards, goes naked, sleeps in crude lean-to "wurleys" made of bark. His society is organized into a loose federation of tribal units and practices a form of basic communism that does not recognize private property. His language, over the centuries, has become divided into more than 500 separate dialects, some of which are among the world's most complex and include as many as four genders of nouns declinable into as many as eight cases (v. six in Latin). He is also the inventor of such...
...were taken away from them by the Franco government for having fought on the wrong side of the civil war. Under the fueros, traditionally granted by most Spanish governments, the Basques were allowed to collect their own taxes and run their own local governments according to the timeless, almost tribal, lights of their ancestors-who decided Basque affairs in a council that met under an oak tree in the ancient town of Guernica...
...least of the region's assets are the Ibos themselves. Early contact with Christian missionaries gave them more savvy in Western techniques than other tribes. Forced by a land shortage in the East to seek a livelihood in other regions, they usually settled in tribal enclaves, invested their earnings and established powerful tribal associations. When Nigeria became independent in 1960, the Ibos controlled most of the black-owned businesses. When the British left, they stepped into top posts in universities, business houses and the civil service. But the Ibos have usually been resented, especially by the Hausa Moslems...
...Somalia to annex French Somaliland. The trouble was that they were registered to vote in fewer numbers than the Afars, a rival tribe that wants to stay tied to France. Neighboring Ethiopia, which contains large numbers of Afars, backs the tribe's cause in French Somaliland. More than tribal loyalty is involved: Ethiopia has a sound economic motive in not wanting its outlet to the Gulf of Aden, a 486-mile narrow-gauge railway from Addis Ababa to Djibouti, to be controlled by the hostile government of Somalia...