Definitions
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- n. the act of making tribal; unification on a tribal basis
Etymologies
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Examples
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This set a bad precedent, he said, because such tribalisation could be extended to the appointment of civil servants and diplomats as well as jobs in the army and police in the Democratic
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I guess the commoditisation of music through the explosion in popularity of the 45 and 33 rpm discs in the 1960s and the tribalisation of popular music which happened then will have also contributed to the rise of the phenomenon.
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The tribalisation of Jamaica has happened because we have not educated our people to think for themselves, to read for themselves about their boundless possibilities.
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The dichotomisation of Palestinians on the one hand and Jews on the other is a false dichotomy introduced to the discourse by zionist ethnicisation (or you might say tribalisation) of the conflict.
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Jamaica and the media should reject daggering and the tribalisation of dancehall into 'Gaza' and 'Gully' camps says L'Antoinette Stines founder of L'acadco dancers.
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Twenty years on, we cannot afford to ignore Europe's loss of self-confidence, the ethnification of politics, the descent into re-tribalisation.
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The deliberate tribalisation in Malaysia has led to a common nation-state with limited racial tensions (?)
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We need to get out of this tribalisation and get into being South African, "he said.
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