For me, the virtual choir has taught me that, if anything, the Internet builds these post-national tribes, people finding each other anyway they can.
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The idea is, we're still a society where we recognize and see and even sometimes seek members of our own tribe, whatever that tribe is. It could be ethnic, religious, geographic, political.
What tribes are, is a very simple concept that goes back 50 million years. It's about leading and connecting people and ideas. And it's something that people have wanted forever.
I meet people every single day who have heard the music and incorporated it into their lives. I feel like I have a tribe all around the world.
In the larger world, tribalism is an enormous problem, as it ever has been: both strength and idiocy borne from belonging.
It's always been a great survival value for people to believe they belong to a superior tribe. That's just in human relationships.
Yet there are thousands of Indigenous people searching for family members.
Tribalism isn't a bad thing. If you're a Facebook user, or Twitter user or Foursquare user or LinkedIn user, those are all tribes... and they may even have sub-tribes. It's not pejorative, it's declarative.
Every human being has to feel a part of a tribe. It's programmed into us. And you have to feel that you're contributing to something.
Above all, we must avoid the pitfalls of tribalism. If we are divided among ourselves on tribal lines, we open our doors to foreign intervention and its potentially harmful consequences.
Each tribe has its characteristics, it is true.
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