![]() ![]() The Rohingya, Uighurs, and Kurds are all being killed as tribes. The current conflicts in Syria, Chechnya, Afghanistan, Nigeria, Sudan, Yemen, Gaza, Tibet, Pakistan, and in several settings in both the Russian Confederation and India have tribes killing people from other tribes. It is puzzling - and it is also damaging and very misleading - because we really do not know what is happening in a large numbers of those settings if we don’t explain and understand the tribes and their role in those situations and settings. That is a major mistake for media and policy people to make. Tribes are both a primary personal identity factor for many people and a major component and driving factor in both inter group conflicts and positive group-based behavior and interactions and alignments across the planet at sometimes extremely obvious levels, and that role is far too often not even mentioned in the descriptions of the events.īoth media people and government officials have sometimes gone to almost amazing lengths to either ignore the existence of tribes or, if they are mentioned, make it a consistent practice to attack their impact and their influence as being only marginally relevant and very wrong and inappropriate for people at both ethical and functional levels in those various inter group settings. We need to understand tribes and we need to see what their actual role is in the lives of people in a wide range of settings today. That is a highly unfortunate and too often directly misleading and sadly inaccurate perspective to take about tribes. ![]() The New York Times and Washington Post and other major media outlets have also managed to do stories about each of those same deeply conflicted countries that also did not acknowledge the role or even existence of tribes for each setting. They do obviously directly acknowledge sectarianism, but they tie their sectarianism linkages carefully to other definitions and to other alignment factors for each group of conflicted people. The very extensive piece produced by The Middle East Institute (MEI) about “Sectarianism in the Middle East and Asia” that is attached to this media report manages to have several writers discussing a dozen countries that currently have tribes fighting tribes and directly killing people from other tribes in setting after setting because of their tribal identity and their tribal status, and they wrote the entire report without mentioning the existence or the names of tribes. This piece is attached to a particularly good example of that set of misleading and erroneous kind of thinking. The people who have that perspective completely and very intentionally both fight and ignore the extremely important role that tribes play in all of those settings - and they give us journalism and policy pronouncements about those settings that can be highly misleading and have very little relevance for what is actually happening to the people in those situations and settings. They clearly say, with great regularity, that the people in each conflicted setting and situation should transfer their loyalty to their local nation instead of to their tribe. With great consistency, they tend to say that the right direction and the right strategy for all of those settings should be to rise as quickly as possible above “Sectarianism” and above tribal thinking and they often say that the local people should return to thinking of nations and nation states as being our natural and most appropriate context for structuring, organizing and managing our future. They generally have the perspective in those articles that tribal issues lower the level of interactions in a nation to what they often label - in a tone of mild derision for the spoken reporting - “Sectarianism.” The articles that do name tribes tend to demean and criticize both their existence and their role. Pundits and journalists will describe what are clearly tribal conflicts that have tribes killing people from other tribes and will manage to focus significant amounts of discussion and reporting on those events and settings without ever mentioning the names of the tribes or noting in any way that the tribes exist and that those tribes are directly and highly relevant to the process and setting. One of the more interesting realities of public policy discussion and debate today is how hard very intelligent people will work to deny that tribes and tribal conflict are shaping our world and our future. Reviews, Paradigms & Beliefs Tribal Warfare Shapes our World and Very Intelligent People do Very Creative Things to Deny that is True ![]()
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