24/08/2026
Tribalism/Ethnicism/KUNDAISM!!! Part 1 of 3
There would be a special place in hell for Tribalist, those who support and encourages it.
When people have tried everything and have discovered that nothing works, they will tend to revert to what they know best - which will often be the tribe, the ethnicity, the race... Paraphrased from C. Hitchens.
I brought an excerpt from a book written by Joshua Greene on "Moral Tribes: Emotion, Reason and the Gap Between Us and Them" for our readership to read.
In this chapter, 6 psychological tendencies of tribe that exacerbate intertribal conflict are considered.
First, Human Tribes are tribalistic, favoring Us over Them.
Second, Tribes have genuine disagreements about how societies should be organised, emphasising, to different extents, the rights of individuals versus the greater good of the group. Tribal values also differ along other dimensions, such as the role of honour in prescribing responses to threats.
Third, Tribes have distinctive moral commitments, typically religious ones, whereby moral authority is vested in local individuals, texts, traditions, and deities that other groups don’t recognize as authoritative.
Fourth, Tribes, like the individuals within them, are prone to biased fairness, allowing group-level self-interest to distort their sense of justice.
Fifth, Tribal beliefs are easily biased. Biased beliefs arise from simple self-interest, but also from more complex social dynamics. Once a belief becomes a cultural identity badge, it can perpetuate itself, even as it undermines the tribe’s interests.
The sixth, the way we process information about social events can cause us to underestimate the harm we cause others, leading to the escalation of conflict.
See Part 2 tomorrow, God willing
