Tribalism borders

>>2754093
>Mexicans and Americans dislike each other despite both being Christian nations
You need to take the history of these people into account too, people of the same race and religion can hate each other

The "tribe" is merely the Group-As-Concept. Anything can be a tribe. The average person is easily within a dozen "tribes". The family, the church, the state, a book club, your D&D group, all of these things are in varying degrees "tribes" as far as tribalism is concerned.

The real meat of tribalism is recognizing what these things are. Namely, groups imagined as distinct interests, with both allies and enemies.

I actually have a lot more I could say on this topic, AMA.

>>2754169

1: Is tribalism something with a lot of depth to it? or is it just a animal instinct that can be formed out of anything and have no large impact in the long run of things? Tribalism in religions is simple, it's to preserve the religion and to help it survive over thousands of years, but does it really mean anything? 1000 years from now and people will be forming tribes on Mars over abstract concepts that don't really matter?

2: Does the average person realize they're in a tribe? In america, it doesn't really feel like I'm in a distinct group or a tribe with its own culture, but when you see a group with a different culture, you can definitely tell that they're kin.

>>2754227

and a 3rd question, would you say that in the future, tribalism will affect the internet, does it affect the internet already?

>>2754239
I hate skub.

>>2754227
You're over-narrowly defining tribe. Tribalism doesn't equate to some base primitivism, it means recognizing what constitutes a social group, how social groups form and develop, how they act as distinct interests.

A tribe is simply a social group with a distinct interest that recognizes itself as such.

What you're probably interested in is how this applies to politics, which is a massive discussion onto itself. The simple concept insofar as tribalism is launched as a critique of globalism, is that globalism is ignoring the realities of group-formation and group-interests in favor of a system that is not sustainable.

>>2754169

This

It's any group a person feels like they belong to, and will then feel the need to defend and support.

>>2754093
A nation is a group of people linked together by a common error about their ancestry and a common dislike of their neighbours.