Tribal life comes automatically to an end when a primitive people begins to live in a town or a city, for sooner or later a tribal organization is found to be incompatible with life in a city.
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In the larger world, tribalism is an enormous problem, as it ever has been: both strength and idiocy borne from belonging.
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.
For the nation to live, the tribe must die.
Tribal man is not an individual in the western sense. Psychologically and emotionally, he is the present living personification of a number of forces, among the most important of which are the ancestral dead.
Tribalism reflects strong ethnic or cultural identities that separate members of one group from another, making them loyal to people like them and suspicious of outsiders, which undermines efforts to forge common cause across groups.
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.
Those who appreciate the ways of simple tribes, where every activity is direct and immediately understandable, are able to live among them.
If you go back in time you'll find tribes that were essentially only concerned with their own tribal members. If you were a member of another tribe, you could be killed with impunity.
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.
Since the beginning, Native Peoples lived a life of being in harmony with all that surrounds us.
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