[lbo-talk] tribes, was Re: Speaking of female candidates...

Chris Doss lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com
Sun Sep 7 12:18:29 PDT 2008


Well, it's the connotation. "Tribe," as opposed to "nation," implies alleged primitivity, at least in my mind. E.g. civilized Romans vs. barbaric German tribes.

Maybe I'm full of shit.

--- On Sun, 9/7/08, John Thornton <jthorn65 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:


> I've never known an NDN who felt the term tribe had any
> negative
> connotation.
> Do you know non-tribal people who have a negative view of
> the term?
>
> John Thornton



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