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family
"Scholars long have observed that although the
family unit is the "nucleus of civilization,"
when family interests are held
to be more important than those of the individual,
it can have a
dampening effect on market economies." -
Gregory Rodriquez
a clan
a tribe
a race
husband,
wife
cousin,
uncle, aunt
a group of like things; a
class
father, mother, son, daughter, sister, brother
A
group of individuals sharing
common ancestry.
A vertical column
in the periodic table of elements.
A
group of elements with similar chemical
properties
A locally independent organized crime unit, as the Cosa Nostra.
Those who
descend from one common progenitor; a
tribe, clan, or race.
A group of individuals
derived from a common stock: the family
of human beings.
A taxonomic category
of related organisms ranking below an order and above a genus.
A set of
functions or surfaces that can be generated by varying the parameters of a
general equation.
A group of
languages descended from the same parent
language, such as the Indo-European
language family.
A group comprising
a husband and wife and their dependent children,
constituting the fundamental building
block in the organization of ancient and modern society and cultures.
A group of organisms, either animal or
vegetable, related by certain points of resemblance in
structure or
development, more comprehensive
than a genus, because it is usually based on fewer or less pronounced points of
likeness. In zoology a family is less comprehesive than an order; in botany it
is often considered the same thing as an
order.
real prosperity
A
rich man asked Sengai to write something for the continued prosperity of his
family so that it might be treasured from generation to generation.
Sengai obtained a large sheet of paper and wrote: "Father dies, son
dies, grandson dies."
The rich man became angry.
"I asked you
to write something for the happiness of my family! Why do you make such a joke
of this?"
"No joke is intended," explained Sengai. "If before you
yourself die your son should die, this would grieve you greatly. If your
grandson should pass away before your son, both of you would be broken-hearted.
If your family, generation after generation, passes away in the order I have
named, it will be the natural course of life.
I call this real
prosperity."
In
Afghanistan and
Iraq, the
United States is
fighting tribalism as much as
Islamic
fundamentalism.
Wahhabi
teachings calling for jihad against
infidels, fatwas from clerics justifying the murder of non-combatants and ultimatums from
Sunni insurgents who
behead captives all are expressions of
extreme tribalism more than
Islam. (Osama
Bin Laden and the foot soldiers of
9-11 subscribe to Saudi Wahhabi
tribalism.)
Many
religions have their deepest roots in
tribal societies.
The major monotheistic
religions of Judaism, Christianity and
Islam arose during tense
tribal times in the Middle East.
Each religion's oldest
texts contain passages that, true to traditional
tribal ethics,
advocate reciprocal altruism toward fellow kin and allow for terrible
retribution against tribes deemed
guilty of
insult or injury.
Religion layered onto
tribalism, and vice versa, deeply
conditions a tribe's
thinking and
behavior.
A
tribe may regard a deity as the ultimate
ancestor of its identity.
Religion
instructs tribal members on how to uphold
their society and treat one
another.
Tribal life can
foster a vibrant sense of social solidarity.
Tribal life fills a humans with pride and
self-respect.
Tribal life
motivates families to
protect, welcome and care for each
other.
This kinship
creates trust and
loyalty in which one knows and must uphold one's
rights, duties and obligations.
Many peoples around the
world prefer the tribal
way of life,
most notably in the Middle East and South Asia.
Even modern
societies that lack well-defined
tribes and clans still have
tribe like sensibilities at their core
that are variously expressed in
nationalism, cultural festivities, civic interest groups, sports and fan clubs.
Tribes and clans are terribly
sensitive to boundaries and barriers, about who is a
tribal member and who isn't.
As
such, a tribe can be a realm of
virtue in which reciprocal altruism
rules kin relations.
In
tribal logic
this virtuous
behavior may be deemed
inapproriate to extend to outsiders.
The more a religion's adherents demonize
others, revel in codes of revenge for alleged
wrongs and crave territorial and spiritual
conquests, all the while claiming to act
on behalf of their deity, the more their
religious orientation is utterly
tribal and prone to rationalizing
violence of the
darkest category.
All
religious hatred whether
Christian, Jewish, Islamic, Buddhist,
Hindu or
other - speaks the
language of
tribe and clan.
And in
true tribal
fashion, that language is loaded with
sensitivities about respect,
honor and dignity.
An
insult or injury to any of these is sensed by
all tribal members,
and the only
honorable recourse is full
compensation or total revenge.
This is an essential ethic of
tribes and clans, no matter their
religion.
Americans comfort themselves with the
thought that no
other nation will be able to match
our power for decades.
But from ancient
times to the present, globally expanding great powers often encounter tribes or clans that fiercely resist them,
sometimes with dire consequences, as happened to the
Roman Empire.
The more
tribal or clannish the
society, the more resistant it will be to
change.
-adapted from David Ronfeldt,
political scientist
"The Western
world's inability to understand the tribal and
religious underpirinings of
Iraq and the rest of the Arab
world is of long standing. The proof is in the media
coverage: "How much longer are valuable lives to be
sacrificed in the
vain
endeavor to impose upon the
Arab population an elaborate and expensive administration they never asked for
and do not want." That was in a story in the Times of London - dated
Aug. 7,1920." - Marty Cooper
clangroup of
people related by blood or
marriage
a large group of relatives, friends,
or associates
the principal social unit of
tribal organization
a group of people of common
descent reckoned exclusively in either the paternal or the maternal
line
a group of people, as a clique, set, society, or party, esp. as united by some common trait,
characteristic, or interest
a group of families or
households, as among the Scottish
Highlanders, the heads of which claim descent from a common ancestor: the
Morrison clan.
racethe human race or family;
humankind
a group of
tribes or peoples forming an ethnic stock
a
group of persons related by common descent or heredity
an actually or
potentially interbreeding group within a species
one of the three, four, or five
divisions based on inherited physical characteristics into which
human beings are usually divided
A
group of people united or classified together on the basis of common
history, nationality, language,
cultural traits or geographic distribution.
A
local geographic or global human population
distinguished as a more or less distinct group by genetically transmitted
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