tribal ties
Ancestral group connections
Tribal ties are the bonds connecting people to their tribe—whether a traditional indigenous group, an extended clan, or any community sharing identity and loyalty.
The phrase emphasizes kinship, shared heritage, and mutual obligation: His tribal ties brought him back to the reservation every summer.
In political contexts, tribal ties often describes allegiances that override other considerations: Voters' tribal ties to the party proved stronger than policy disagreements.
- clanRelated group sharing ancestry
- kinshipState of being related
- ancestryFamily line of descent
- bloodlineAncestry through generations
- lineageDescent from progenitors
family tree · extended family · elders · heritage · roots · ancestral land · bond · loyalty · community · indigenous · native · native tongue · oral tradition · ritual · tradition · belonging · family · allegiance
- AfricaEgypt, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania
- Arab cultureArabic, Arab, Bedouin, emir, Baghdad
- Gulf traditionshospitality customs, Eid celebrations, Ramadan, Ramadan fasting, iftar
- kinshipmother, father, sister, brother, children
- South AfricaCape Town, Johannesburg, Nelson Mandela, Pretoria, Durban
- Social Supportfamily support, friendship, trust, loyalty, caregiving
tribal tiesglobal citizenship
Belonging to humanity collectively
cosmopolitanism · universal brotherhood · civic identity · world citizenship · internationalism
tribal tiescosmopolitanism
Belief in shared humanity
universalism · globalism · worldliness · internationalism · ecumenism
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