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a different use of the term TRIBE and TRIBAL.
This article is from Paul Krugman, Nobel Price for Economics, columnist of the NYTimes, and, after leaving Princeton U, professor of Economics at the CUNY Grad Center. (*It's so cool I can call a Nobel laureate, 'CUNY colleague'.)
He is also one of the most respected political commentators on the scene.
What do you make of his use of the term TRIBAL with a negative connotation?
We are not arguing here whether HIS use of the word is right or wrong.
The issue is the flexibility of the term TRIBE, its semantic value: it can be used to imply negative or positive values.
Does it make it a loaded and therefore risky term to use?
You are a small but very smart group of students. You can engage in a serious discussion on this seemingly small and irrelevant issue. Irrelevant for others, maybe, but not irrelevant for us.
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The use of his word tribal to show that sometimes it's assumed that people only care about the people in their tribe can be kind of accurate. Often with political parties democrats and republicans often looks out for that political party based on the values that they feel is true to them. It can be seen as a risky term to use but it can be accurate if take the term for the literal meaning.
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