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 and democracies." - 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.

American aristocracy's, supported by government and corporate institutions, overall plan of social control requires the dissolution of the family. By appealing to the ego of youth malevolent institutions divide and conquer the home and hearth of family life.

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."

tribalism

In Afghanistan and Iraq, the United States is fighting tribalism as much as Islamic fundamentalism.

Salan and 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

clan

group 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.

race

the 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 physical characteristics.

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