what are the dangers of tribalism

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Weegy: These effects are multiple; they involve a complicity and willingness between or among people to be unquestioning, to follow blindly, despite contradictions or immoralities that blur their better judgements. [ When one proceeds to ever larger and more complex social constructs, these same allegiances stay in play. These same feelings can then be applied to one's friends, groups, sports teams, corporations, cities and states. Of course, most states have militaries, and when goverments have expansionist type policies, they invoke the use of their armies to implement them. Of course, simialar to the family structure, an efficient army brooks no questioning within its ranks, so one is trained to act upon orders from superiors, regardless of amoralities that members might never perform outside of that situation. Military constructs demand that kind of obedience, and appeals to that most primal of instincts, survival, to get that obedience. " All for one, and one for all, " is the call that one ignores to his and his fellow members own safety. There are obvious dangers in this type of behaviour, but we have been so inculcated to follow without question that to think otherwise seems insurrectionist. When we hear our national anthem, there is something primal in our response to it, the feeling of love of our country, allegiance to it, the welling of tears in the most hardened of us. I am not advocating that we should start hating where we live, regardless of where that is. In fact, a love of our very locale is the very thing that is our only chance of surviving policies that ensure profit over well being. The caring for our environment is our only chance for survival, and by extension, other people's locales also. Of course, this ties in perfectly with the this blog's theme: that we need to constantly be questioning structures whose existence are not predicated on the well being of its constituents, but on things like profit and greed. Corporations are only smaller forms of nationalism, but equally dangerous. ]
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The dangers of tribalism include increased division and conflict among groups, dehumanization of others, perpetuation of stereotypes, and the undermining of social cohesion and cooperation within broader society.

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