tribal loyalty
Group before outsiders
Tribal loyalty is allegiance to one's own group—whether ethnic, political, or social—often at the expense of broader considerations or objective judgment.
The term carries connotations of instinctive, unexamined devotion: Tribal loyalty kept him voting for candidates he knew were corrupt.
While loyalty to one's community can be positive, tribal loyalty usually implies putting group identity above principle or truth.
- clanRelated group sharing ancestry
- blood tiesFamilial relationships through ancestry
- allegianceLoyalty owed to authority
- sworn oathFormal binding promise
- kinshipState of being related
bloodline · belonging · fealty · devotion · family honor · brotherhood · band of brothers · sisterhood · ancestral · heritage · oath · bond · unity · faction · pride · territory · honor · elder
- Bedouin cultureBedouin tents, black tent, desert survival, hospitality customs, nomadic lifestyle
- loyalty typespatriotism
- tribalismin-group, out-group, outgroup, ingroup, us versus them
- PashtunPashtun, Pashto, malik, subtribe, genealogy
tribal loyaltyuniversalism
Doctrine of total reconciliation
cosmopolitanism · global citizenship · humanitarianism · universal brotherhood · humanism
tribal loyaltyindividualism
Doctrine of personal independence
personal autonomy · nonconformity · self-determination · freethought · critical thinking
tribal loyaltyimpartiality
Freedom from prejudice
objectivity · fairness · even-handedness · neutrality · disinterestedness
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