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US
/ˈtɹaɪbəɫɪzəm, ˈtɹaɪbəɫɪzm/
]
[ UK /tɹˈaɪbəlˌɪzəm/ ]
[ UK /tɹˈaɪbəlˌɪzəm/ ]
NOUN
- the state of living together in tribes
- the beliefs of a tribal society
How To Use tribalism In A Sentence
- Although tensions existed between the army and the group, the president defused them by playing the politics of tribalism and regionalism, often targeting northerners as the source of the nation's problems.
- The Bantustans represented an imposed tribalism, with indigenous Africans forcibly displaced onto reservations carved out of the country's poorest land.
- Apartheid used tribalism as the basis of its "divide-and-rule" homeland policies.
- But that doesn't excuse the tribalism from the people with my skin color who want to deprive honest and hardworking people of the chance to make it in a free society because they don't happen to have a high-IQ. A Childish Question About Immigration, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
- Why has the era of globalization been characterized by an intensification of tribalism and ethnic conflict?
- Kenya continues to suffer from tribalism and corruption, as well as high population growth, unemployment, political instability, and the AIDS epidemic.
- When the members of these teams had never met before, interpersonal trust had to be replaced by trust in the organisation, meaning tribalism occasionally got in the way.
- The problem isn't having so many religions or countries, or denominations; the problem is being afraid of and not being able to embrace our differences, and when our differences are played out in tribalism.
- Yet in his second return to government he has considered the conflict between party tribalism and economic judgment, and chosen badly. Times, Sunday Times
- The author states with a grand rhetorical flourish: ‘Rome broke the tribalism of Celtic Britain with the iron claw of its uniformity’.