When two tribes go to war . . . one is all that you can score

The term tribe or tribalism has most frequently been use among scholars and politicians, of late.  Though the term has a multifarious history and usage, It has been abused and misused by many up to today.  “Fried contends that the term is so ambiguous and confusing that it should be abandoned by social scientists” (Pennsylvania University African Center) The bottom line for me is that the use of the term does not matter. Regardless of the use of the term,  the idea that there is a  system which definitively works to designate one group as opposed to another is fallacious. People identify in many ways with a term, democrat, and republican, black, white; these terms are more than descriptive, they lend a flavor to language that remains in the mind much longer than perhaps one would want them to.  With a simple search one finds the following definition. “Tribalism in a political sense refers to the strong political solidarity typical of post-truth politics” Tribe, more so tribalism, indicates an identification, but not an automatic ownership of the commitment to a “tribe” In an effort to remain my usual brief self, I will only comment ad hoc about this term. I will only make a few points here: 1. If someone uses the term in a casual setting, the use may be an attempt to demonstrate what political knowledge they have. At a dinner party one may use the term in order to gain a status among the party. 2. Another cosmopolitan use of the term is to identify as, in particular, that one has a whole language of preference around them. It might mean that the speaker is marginalized. 3. Identity politics helps one to conflate the term with the idea with oppression. 4. In business the term may be to distinguish one type of practice from another 5. In the context of religion the term may be used to demonstrate a chasm between belief systems.  6. It may simply be used to be divisive 7. It may be used to incredulously point to the diminutiveness of another 8. To make a discreet argument about the importance of one’s self or group 9. Tribe can be used in the context 10. Using it in order to not feel alone e.g. “I found my tribe”  

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