Do you think America is the most tribalistic culture?

Japan is more nativist, sexist and racist. They are a monoculture because of these things. A less nativist nation would have more immigrants.

Wait Japan is sexist? And here I was thinking Japan had incredibly effeminate men

I hope someone watched the video.

Normally “here’s a video you should watch” doesn’t get much traction here. You want to use video as a cite/example then you need to use it in support of those arguments not as a stand in for them.

Why? How does it pertain to the topic?

The most? No.

The answer to your question is right here:

Melting pot is pretty much the opposite of tribalism. While the melting pot doesn’t mean there can be no separate tribes at all, it tends to blur the lines between the ‘tribes’, and that’s what we have here in the US. There are a host of countries where the lines are much more distinct between the various ‘tribes’. China, Russia, even several European nations spring to mind.

The assumption I draw from this question is that you are American. Americans in general tend to have a more myopic view of the world, tending toward the belief that the US is more (or less, depending on the subject) “X” than any other country. It almost always is not, even for “Western” countries. By the way, do you mean culturally western , economically western or politically western?

Tribalism is not solely based on race or origin. In more racially homogenous counties, for instance, “tribes” are based on other status, perceived or real.

How is a “sense of community” different from tribalism? They’re both membership in a group defined by a perceived barrier, in this case geographic.

Japan, as mentioned above, is very “tribalistic”. “Tribes” there are based on work, politics, economics, grades, etc. and can be very difficult to breech by an “outsider”.

I don’t believe the US to be any more or less tribalistic than in the past. I do believe the tribal lines as they relate to political beliefs appear to be more hard line than in the recent past, but that may also be due as much to media focus as actual sociological change.

Maybe I should have posted this in the “Unpopular Opinions” thread. :smiley:

Not knowing Japan has problems with sexism shows you are quite uninformed. Posting a single youtube-link as the only support of your impressions of Japan shows why. Posters here who embrace the site’s purpose “Fighting ignorance”, won’t even bother clicking on it, knowing it is highly likely to be irrelevant to the thread and barely relevant to your statement. Unless it’s actually someone reading from their meta-study on the prevalence of effeminate men and low level of sexism in Japan, but, to repeat myself, that’s not likely.

There are cross-dressers in all countries, some more openly than others. What’s that got to do with sexism??

p.s. Japan has a long tradition, lasting well into the 20th century, of only allowing men to perform on stage. Which meant female roles in Noh and Kabuki plays were played by male actors. That is a sign of sexism, not lack thereof.

That’s not what he claims in another thread.

Oh, holy shit! :stuck_out_tongue: Gods, that’s irony that is practically off the scale! No, strike that…it’s irony that IS off the scale. It’s like a 4th wall break of irony inside a 4th wall break of irony! I actually fell off my chair when I read your post after seeing Doctor Jackson’s assumption that an ignorant statement must be from an American. Thank you for that…best laugh I’ve had all week.

Well tribalistic is as vague of a word as it can get, I am using in the context most people do as far I am concerned.

Humans are tibalistic by nature. Nationality plays into that tribalism to some extent. Within nationality there are further tribal schizms. Are you talking about which country is the most tribally fragmented?

The U.S. Has many ethnic groups and subcultures, but MOST of us eventually adopt the common language of English and begin to identify as “American.” If we were " tribalistic, " that kind of assimilation couldn’t happen.

There are many countries with multiple cultures and ethnic groups that don’t share even a language, much less any sense of nationhood. Those are the countries that need to worry about tribalism.

Yep

Hey, I’m American! That doesn’t stop me from acknowledging that Americans tend to be less aware of the world outside their own country than others. One cite of many:

There are 850 different languages spoken in Papua New Guinea. India has 22 official languages and over 100 more with large numbers of speakers, around a thousand if you count ones spoken by small communities.

The only way you could get to a thousand is if your name is “Ethnologue.” The Sultans of Split.

I said that’s what he claims. In the words of the New Yorker cartoon, “On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog.” But in fact no one believes that any dogs are on the Internet.