核心畫面

You can picture a line drawn around a group of people. Inside the line are 'our people', with our leaders and our customs. Outside the line is everyone else. Tribalism is sometimes the line itself — a society really is built out of these circles — and sometimes the way people behave once the line is there.

可以想成地上畫了一個圈。圈裡是「我們的人」,有我們的頭人、我們的規矩。圈外就是別人。tribalism 有時候指的是更多收起可以想成地上畫了一個圈。圈裡是「我們的人」,有我們的頭人、我們的規矩。圈外就是別人。tribalism 有時候指的是這個圈本身,也就是社會真的是一圈一圈組起來的;有時候指的是圈畫好以後,人會變成什麼樣子。這個字的兩邊意思,都可以從這個圈看出來。

From the word’s history

tribal + -ism: the suffix -ism turns an adjective into a whole set of ideas and behaviour, so tribalism is 'acting along tribal lines'.

tribal(部落的)加上 -ism。-ism 會把一個形容詞變成「一整套想法和做法」,所以 tribalism 就是「照部落那條線來行動的那一套」。

Wiktionary entry for tribalism (packet etymology_text: 'From tribal + -ism.')

Two branches

有部落這個事實

這一組講的是那個圈真的存在:社會就是分成一個一個部落。

noun · C1

The fact that a society is organised into tribes — separate groups, each with its own leaders, land and customs — instead of into one single state.

部落制

圈畫好以後的心態

同一個圈,換個角度看:重點不在圈存不存在,而在人站在圈裡以後怎麼想、怎麼做。

noun · C1

Ways of thinking and behaving that come from strong loyalty to your own tribe: putting your own group's people, customs and interests first, and treating everyone outside the group as outsiders.

部落主義