Word: tribalization
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...Pirsig dithered in the 1970s, Rogers headed straight to Wall Street, where he teamed up with George Soros at the Quantum Fund and turned a $600 investment into many millions. It bought him a limestone mansion on Riverside Drive that today is filled with spears, pelts and other tribal relics and resembles the lobby of an explorers' club...
...local exchange and buys a selection of stocks on the spot. These days Rogers is bullish on the darnedest places: Peru, Angola, Cameroon, and especially Botswana -- all seven of that country's stocks. Botswana has a stable currency, prosperous mines, rich natural resources, a 10% growth rate and no tribal conflicts to speak of, and the stock exchange is one desk in a banker's office. He likes New Zealand, which has cheap stocks and is starting to emerge from 10 years of depression. He likes China, with its long tradition of trading and haggling, where the traders and hagglers...
...into the rebel stronghold of Aden on the southern Saudi Arabian peninsula, claiming victory over secessionists in the 65-day-old civil war. Thousands of South Yemeni residents fled, but just as many met the soldiers with cries of welcome after weeks of siege and shelling. The conflict between tribal-based North Yemen and communist South Yemen was the first since the two states merged four years ago, and had quashed popular hopes that a series of wars and skirmishes since the 1960s would ever cease. Even now, the separatist leader, Ali Salem al-Beidh, and five of his aides...
After the U.N. narrowly approved a proposed mission to protect refugees from tribal slaughter, France began sending 2,500 Foreign Legionnaires and marines across the border into Rwanda from Zaire. Rwandan rebels at first opposed the intervention, but later said they would not engage the French if they did not interfere in the civil war. A U.N. contingent is expected to replace the French in a few months...
Suddenly, these young anthropologists ask me--as eldest survivor of a remote, disappearing culture--to record my tribal memories, chants and alphabets...