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Definition of tribalism in English:

tribalism

noun ˈtrʌɪbəlɪz(ə)mˈtraɪbəˌlɪzəm
mass noun
  • 1The state or fact of being organized in a tribe or tribes.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Mwakikagile does admit that Africa has had some successes, and that even Nigeria, which fought a civil war because of tribalism, has been able to overcome many of those ethnic issues.
    • 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.
    • There's no tribalism or ethnicity, but race remains a sensitive issue.
    • Third, there is hard evidence that tribalism has a role in the army.
    • Why has the era of globalization been characterized by an intensification of tribalism and ethnic conflict?
    • Jesus Christ therefore, by implication, liberates the African Christian from disease, human and natural disasters, from tribalism, racism and any monstrous and inhuman political domination.
    • According to the magazine, Africa's failures could be explained by a combination of factors, including harsh natural conditions, colonialism, tribalism, dictatorship and corruption.
    • Although the contemporary policy ramifications of the new push toward regionalism and this new tribalism have only been briefly touched upon in this paper, it nonetheless lays some foundations for future research.
    • The Bantustans represented an imposed tribalism, with indigenous Africans forcibly displaced onto reservations carved out of the country's poorest land.
    • While ecological problems are not the sole province of the Third World, it is there that the largest population increases are expected, where central governments are weakest, and where tribalism is rampant.
    • Western images of the Arab world remain rooted in either the nineteenth-century racism of ‘Orientalism’ or clichés of tribalism and terrorism.
    • It is therefore not without significance that since the 1970s African social scientists have dispensed with the concept of tribalism and have displayed great hostility to its continued use by Westerners.
    • The lack of any compelling national interest and the difficulties posed by local tribalism argue strongly against.
    • The author states with a grand rhetorical flourish: ‘Rome broke the tribalism of Celtic Britain with the iron claw of its uniformity’.
    • Kenya continues to suffer from tribalism and corruption, as well as high population growth, unemployment, political instability, and the AIDS epidemic.
    • Both the Soviets and the current government have promoted his wisdom in efforts to foster nationalism over tribalism.
    • The effort to invent a modern politics for Africa privileged ethnic representation-a revived, or sometimes even invented, tribalism.
    • After the military coup of 1980, however, a new tribalism or politically strategic ethnicity began to emerge.
    • Here then is a simple model of how tribalism may play out during a rebellion or tribal insurgency: A group of extended families gains control over a sub - clan.
    1. 1.1derogatory The behaviour and attitudes that stem from strong loyalty to one's own tribe or social group.
      a society motivated by cultural tribalism
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Is there an element of bigotry here; of tribalism?
      • In fact their ideology mostly flows from their tribalism.
      • By '90, adherents numbered in the thousands, and a distrustful government began to clamp down, leveling accusations of tribalism against the movement and then banishing it.
      • The banker said the promotion of information technology is ‘one of the first priorities’ in Afghanistan because it will eliminate tribalism caused by distance and expand business opportunities.
      • When they get into their bureaucratic tribe, their tribalism comes out.
      • 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.
      • Anthropology, both in its American and British versions, while much richer in its theoretical practices, has succumbed to a postmodern tribalism.
      • 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.
      • We have to cut through all forms of provincialism, parochialism, and tribalism - this is the perennial struggle of being a progressive.
      • Our conversation returns, as they are wont to do in these circumstances, to tribalism - county rivalries.
      • It is religion that manifests the tribalism of human behavior most clearly.
      • The first weeks of the finals have shown that tribalism has transcended the past and a new breed of tribalism has hit the national stage.
      • Each has been tempted by an excess of otherworldliness or this-worldliness, by universalism or tribalism, by the spirit or by the flesh.
 
 

Definition of tribalism in US English:

tribalism

nounˈtrībəˌlizəmˈtraɪbəˌlɪzəm
  • 1The state or fact of being organized in a tribe or tribes.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The Bantustans represented an imposed tribalism, with indigenous Africans forcibly displaced onto reservations carved out of the country's poorest land.
    • Jesus Christ therefore, by implication, liberates the African Christian from disease, human and natural disasters, from tribalism, racism and any monstrous and inhuman political domination.
    • While ecological problems are not the sole province of the Third World, it is there that the largest population increases are expected, where central governments are weakest, and where tribalism is rampant.
    • Although the contemporary policy ramifications of the new push toward regionalism and this new tribalism have only been briefly touched upon in this paper, it nonetheless lays some foundations for future research.
    • Kenya continues to suffer from tribalism and corruption, as well as high population growth, unemployment, political instability, and the AIDS epidemic.
    • The author states with a grand rhetorical flourish: ‘Rome broke the tribalism of Celtic Britain with the iron claw of its uniformity’.
    • After the military coup of 1980, however, a new tribalism or politically strategic ethnicity began to emerge.
    • Why has the era of globalization been characterized by an intensification of tribalism and ethnic conflict?
    • The lack of any compelling national interest and the difficulties posed by local tribalism argue strongly against.
    • Both the Soviets and the current government have promoted his wisdom in efforts to foster nationalism over tribalism.
    • Mwakikagile does admit that Africa has had some successes, and that even Nigeria, which fought a civil war because of tribalism, has been able to overcome many of those ethnic issues.
    • Western images of the Arab world remain rooted in either the nineteenth-century racism of ‘Orientalism’ or clichés of tribalism and terrorism.
    • According to the magazine, Africa's failures could be explained by a combination of factors, including harsh natural conditions, colonialism, tribalism, dictatorship and corruption.
    • There's no tribalism or ethnicity, but race remains a sensitive issue.
    • Here then is a simple model of how tribalism may play out during a rebellion or tribal insurgency: A group of extended families gains control over a sub - clan.
    • The effort to invent a modern politics for Africa privileged ethnic representation-a revived, or sometimes even invented, tribalism.
    • Third, there is hard evidence that tribalism has a role in the army.
    • It is therefore not without significance that since the 1970s African social scientists have dispensed with the concept of tribalism and have displayed great hostility to its continued use by Westerners.
    • 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.
    1. 1.1derogatory The behavior and attitudes that stem from strong loyalty to one's own tribe or social group.
      a society motivated by cultural tribalism
      Example sentencesExamples
      • In fact their ideology mostly flows from their tribalism.
      • It is religion that manifests the tribalism of human behavior most clearly.
      • The first weeks of the finals have shown that tribalism has transcended the past and a new breed of tribalism has hit the national stage.
      • 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 banker said the promotion of information technology is ‘one of the first priorities’ in Afghanistan because it will eliminate tribalism caused by distance and expand business opportunities.
      • Our conversation returns, as they are wont to do in these circumstances, to tribalism - county rivalries.
      • We have to cut through all forms of provincialism, parochialism, and tribalism - this is the perennial struggle of being a progressive.
      • By '90, adherents numbered in the thousands, and a distrustful government began to clamp down, leveling accusations of tribalism against the movement and then banishing it.
      • When they get into their bureaucratic tribe, their tribalism comes out.
      • 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.
      • Is there an element of bigotry here; of tribalism?
      • Anthropology, both in its American and British versions, while much richer in its theoretical practices, has succumbed to a postmodern tribalism.
      • Each has been tempted by an excess of otherworldliness or this-worldliness, by universalism or tribalism, by the spirit or by the flesh.
 
 
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