Thinking tribal nationalism can cure ills of neoliberal globalism is like thinking infecting yourself with HIV will cure heart disease
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wow I actually take the most offense to that tweet. I can also see that someone missed out on Asian economic history class
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who offense epp!? its swapping illnesses. Some countries do better with tribal nationalism but multicultural ones don't.
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is that so? And where's the evidence to prove this?
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its a structural truth. Tribal nat'lism in a multicult country means 1 tribe dominates. Look to every genocide as example
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usually - not always - India is a counter example
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India isn't really tribalist though...the caste system has this weird side effect of regulating tribal forces
depends on defn of tribe; early on it was, but to ur point the caste system arose pretty early & regulated it
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yeah, in Fukuyama's model he argues that it played the same stabilizing role as secular rule of law does today
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Yeah Shia-Sunni split and other events like rise of Wahhabism, I think has been abt people pushing for tribalism>law again
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