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Revenge of the tribes: How the Empire could fall

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Yale professor Amy Chua has two precautionary tales for Americans, and their names are Libya and Iraq. "We’re starting to see in America something that I’ve seen in other countries that is not good," says Chua. "We don’t want to go there. We don’t want to get to the point where we look at people on the other side of the political spectrum and we see them not just as people that we disagree with but literally as our enemy, as immoral, “un-American” people." Tribalism is innate to humanity, and it is the glue that holds nations together—but it's a Goldilocks conundrum: too much or too little of it and a nation will tear at the seams. It becomes most dangerous when two hardened camps form and obliterate all the subtribes beneath them. Chua stresses the importance of "dividing yourself so that you don’t get entrenched in just two terrible tribes." Having many identities and many points of overlap with fellow citizens is what keeps a country's unity strong. When that flexibility disappears, and a person becomes only a Republican or a Democrat—or only a Sunni Muslim or a Shia Muslim, as in Iraq—that's when it's headed for danger. In this expansive and brilliant talk on political tribes, Chua explains what happens when minorities and majorities clash, why post-colonial nations are often doomed to civil war, and why you can't just replace dictators with democracy. Amy Chua is the author of Political Tribes: Group Instinct and the Fate of Nations.
http://bigthink.com/videos/amy-chua-how-hardened-tribalism-leads-to-civil-wars



This analogy can apply to India too. Just substitute India where it says America.


 
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I am not sure what the tribes are in India. Hindu vs Muslim?

Or is each state its own tribe? That seems more plausible.
 
Its innate human nature to " fight"...even if they are many tribes..inter tribal battles are inevitable.

And even if there is just one tribe humans would find ways to subdivide themselves to fight again.

I call it the "Amoeba syndrome"..that is we keep dividing ourselves to reign supreme over one another.

Why go so far..we have castes and subcastes too and that lead to a pachyderm in a lawsuit!LOL
 
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