Word: tribalization
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...Russians launched a determined effort to wipe out the rebellious Mohammedans in Sinkiang. Some 10,000 Kazaks were driven out of Barkol, high in the northeast. They fled southward. Some made their way across the frozen Himalayas to India. Some stayed to fight under the leadership of a tribal chieftain named Osman Bator who, singlehanded and armed only with outmoded equipment from China's Nationalists, declared war on the whole Soviet Union...
...through the BBC ranks as an actor and announcer, Grisewood often acts as his own talent scout. Pipelines to the universities and London literary circles help him find out who is at work on a new critique of Shelley or who is just back from a look at the tribal habits of the Ubangi. Sometimes, the Third goes out and beats the bushes itself, as when it recently persuaded Oxford's C. Day Lewis to make a new translation of the Aeneid for a broadcast series...
...people of South Africa . . . undoubtedly do in some cases take advantage of, and abuse, the native, but on the other hand, what would the natives do if the white man pulled out? ... They would rapidly revert to the jungle again, and go back to their old tribal warfares, and the rapid killing off of their own kind...
...persuade the Jew that he has no claim to a creed of hope and purpose. During most of history, the Jews have responded with Gandhi-like nonresistance. The tragi-comical result, says Ussher, is that the Jews have acted in essence like Christians, and Christians as followers of the tribal Jehovah. But Jewish doggedness, in Ussher's view, has harmed as well as saved the Jew. It has given him, in his urban life, a "peculiar and stern conditioning," robbing his intellect of "fresh and erratic blooms." Nature has become to him "a lost Eden." It is Ussher...
...high figures. The offended tribe can demand payment for 1) the original bloodshed, 2) the victim's agony before death, 3) the victim's actual death and 4) the re-establishment of friendly relations. When the fine gets so high that the compensation machinery breaks down, tribal war follows. That was what happened two years ago when Jose Velasquez, one of the Epieyus (Blackbird) chiefs, got liquored up and gunned down Jose Aguilar, a chief of the Epinayu (Weasel) tribe...