Having a tribal view to me means having a limited view. It would be the view of just the tribe excluding anyone outside the tribe. The tribe could be a few people, several hundred, or an entire nation. Tribal worldviews may help keep the tribe cohesive and keep outside influences to a minimum but I believe most tribal views are outdated. The challenges we face today are global. For example climate change. If there is an ecological collaspe it won’t matter if you are a Christian or a Muslim, from Russia or the United States, black or white. We are all on the same ship. It may be time to abandon Tribal Worldviews and start thinking of the big tribe. The worldwide tribe. This includes not just humans but our fellow travelers on the ship. The millions of other species on the planet.
Having a tribal worldview means that you see the whole world through the eyes of the particular group (“tribe”) you identify as belonging with. Usually, this is a bad thing, because in so doing you may reject all other perspectives. It is an intensely subjective worldview, which runs the risk of being intensely unscientific, irrational and unreasonable, closed off to healthy skepticism and self-critique. Religious fundamentalism is a form of tribalism.
However, if you belong to a group that has in fact been wronged and oppressed, and who is still living with the effects of this, then your tribal worldview could be an expression of the desire for social justice and restitution; a protest against continued injustice. Also, it depends on what is meant by the “tribal” reference. If it refers to a very large grouping, it may simply refer to the way of thinking of that group (for instance the way of thinking in your particular line of business), and may exist fairly peacefully with the ways of thinking of other groups.
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