Editing Tribalism (section)

== Types ==
Tribalism implies the possession of a strong cultural or ethnic identity that separates one member of a group from the members of another group. Based on strong relations of proximity and kinship, as well as relations based on the mutual survival of both the individual members of the tribe and for the tribe itself, members of a tribe tend to possess a strong feeling of identity. Objectively, for a customary tribal society to form there needs to be ongoing customary organization, inquiry, and exchange. However, intense feelings of common identity can lead people to feel tribally connected.<ref>{{cite book|author1=Kanakasena Dekā|author2=Kanakasena Ḍekā|title=Assam's Crisis: Myth & Reality|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=W8-zUe6RpfUC|year=1993|publisher=Mittal Publications|isbn=978-81-7099-473-2|page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=W8-zUe6RpfUC&pg=PA90 90]}}</ref>

The distinction between these two definitions of ''tribalism'', objective and subjective, is an important one because while ''tribal societies'' have been pushed to the edges of the [[Western world]], ''tribalism'', by the second definition, is arguably undiminished. A few writers have postulated that the human brain is hard-wired towards tribalism, but that claim is usually linked to equating original questions of sociality with tribalism.<ref>{{cite book|author1=Erich Fromm|author2=Michael MacCoby|title=Social Character in a Mexican Village|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vnXCf7iGXQUC|year=1970|publisher=Transaction Publishers|isbn=978-1-56000-876-7|page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=vnXCf7iGXQUC&pg=PR11 xi]}}</ref>