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Summary: Amy Chua's Political Tribes: Group Instinct and the Fate of Nations
Summary and Analysis based on Amy Chua's Political Group Instinct and the Fate of Nations || Summarized by Brief Books
IMPORTANT NOTE TO This is a summary and analysis companion book based on Amy Chua's Political Group Instinct and the Fate of Nations. This is not meant to supplement your original reading experience, but rather enhance it. We strongly encourage you to purchase the original book at the following
Political Tribes by Amy Chua is an engaging insight into humanity’s innate tribalism. Humans need to belong to groups and maintain fulfilling bonds with others. Tribalism is not only about inclusion in a group, it is also about exclusion to those outside of the group. Group identity in one’s tribe is not based on the country they live in, it is actually “ethnic, regional, religious, sectarian, or clan based.” The United States is as tribal as any other nation despite its melting pot of ethnicities and cultures.
U.S. foreign policymakers over the decades have been totally blinded by its ideology, emphasis of capitalism and democracy, and derision of com-munism. Lessons were not learned and the same mistakes were made repeatedly in Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan. Our foreign interventions turned swaths of the populations we were trying to help against us, empowering anti-American extremists in the process.
The popularity of Donald Trump the politician can be attributed to group identity as America’s elites entirely discarded the tribal aspect of American politics and the “powerful anti-establishment iden-tity forming within the working class that helped elect Donald Trump.” Chua calls the U.S. “a tribe of tribes” and a “super-group,” membership of which is open to anyone of any background. However, these individuals can maintain their subgroup iden-tity (ethnicity, religion, culture). America is now witnessing the beginnings of ethnonationalism in many respects, propelled by a significant backlash against the establishment, followed by a reciprocal backlash from those elites against the masses, and “the transformation of democracy into an engine of zero-sum political tribalism.” Chua offers hope in the Epilogue, describing an America that has a chance to turn this division around if we view each other as fellow human beings and fellow Americans who mostly want the same thing for ourselves and our country.
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IMPORTANT NOTE TO This is a summary and analysis companion book based on Amy Chua's Political Group Instinct and the Fate of Nations. This is not meant to supplement your original reading experience, but rather enhance it. We strongly encourage you to purchase the original book at the following
Political Tribes by Amy Chua is an engaging insight into humanity’s innate tribalism. Humans need to belong to groups and maintain fulfilling bonds with others. Tribalism is not only about inclusion in a group, it is also about exclusion to those outside of the group. Group identity in one’s tribe is not based on the country they live in, it is actually “ethnic, regional, religious, sectarian, or clan based.” The United States is as tribal as any other nation despite its melting pot of ethnicities and cultures.
U.S. foreign policymakers over the decades have been totally blinded by its ideology, emphasis of capitalism and democracy, and derision of com-munism. Lessons were not learned and the same mistakes were made repeatedly in Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan. Our foreign interventions turned swaths of the populations we were trying to help against us, empowering anti-American extremists in the process.
The popularity of Donald Trump the politician can be attributed to group identity as America’s elites entirely discarded the tribal aspect of American politics and the “powerful anti-establishment iden-tity forming within the working class that helped elect Donald Trump.” Chua calls the U.S. “a tribe of tribes” and a “super-group,” membership of which is open to anyone of any background. However, these individuals can maintain their subgroup iden-tity (ethnicity, religion, culture). America is now witnessing the beginnings of ethnonationalism in many respects, propelled by a significant backlash against the establishment, followed by a reciprocal backlash from those elites against the masses, and “the transformation of democracy into an engine of zero-sum political tribalism.” Chua offers hope in the Epilogue, describing an America that has a chance to turn this division around if we view each other as fellow human beings and fellow Americans who mostly want the same thing for ourselves and our country.
BUY YOUR COPY TODAY! Learn about the political tribes of our nation, and how they can affect YOU!
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Published April 19, 2018
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