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020 9780399562853
020 0399562850
020 |z9780399562860 (ebook)
041 eng
082 04 327|223/swe
092 0 327|bengelska
100 1 Chua, Amy,|aauthor
245 10 Political tribes :|bgroup instinct and the fate of nations
/|cAmy Chua
264 1 New York|bPenguin Press, an imprint of Penguin Random
House LLC,|c[2018]
300 293 pages ;|c24 cm
336 text|btxt|2rdacontent
337 unmediated|bn|2rdamedia
338 volume|bnc|2rdacarrier
504 Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-282) and
index
520 8 "Humans are tribal. We need to belong to groups. In many
parts of the world, the group identities that matter most-
-the ones that people will kill and die for--are ethnic,
religious, sectarian, or clan-based. But because America
tends to see the world in terms of nation-states engaged
in great ideological battles--Capitalism vs. Communism,
Democracy vs. Authoritarianism, the "Free World" vs. the
"Axis of Evil"--we are often spectacularly blind to the
power of tribal politics. Time and again this blindness
has undermined American foreign policy. In the Vietnam War,
viewing the conflict through Cold War blinders, we never
saw that most of Vietnam's "capitalists" were members of
the hated Chinese minority. Every pro-free-market move we
made helped turn the Vietnamese people against us. In Iraq,
we were stunningly dismissive of the hatred between that
country's Sunnis and Shias. If we want to get our foreign
policy right--so as to not be perpetually caught off guard
and fighting unwinna|able wars--the United States has to
come to grips with political tribalism abroad. Just as
Washington's foreign policy establishment has been blind
to the power of tribal politics outside the country, so
too have American political elites been oblivious to the
group identities that matter most to ordinary Americans--
and that are tearing the United States apart. As the
stunning rise of Donald Trump laid bare, identity politics
have seized both the American left and right in an
especially dangerous, racially inflected way. In America
today, every group feels threatened: whites and blacks,
Latinos and Asians, men and women, liberals and
conservatives, and so on. There is a pervasive sense of
collective persecution and discrimination. On the left,
this has given rise to increasingly radical and
exclusionary rhetoric of privilege and cultural
appropriation. On the right, it has fueled a disturbing
rise in xenophobia and white nationalism. In
characteristically persuasive style, Amy Chua argu|aes
that America must rediscover a national identity that
transcends our political tribes. Enough false slogans of
unity, which are just another form of divisiveness. It is
time for a more difficult unity that acknowledges the
reality of group differences and fights the deep
inequities that divide us."--Dust jacket
520 8 Discusses the failure of America's political elites to
recognize how group identities drive politics both at home
and abroad, and outlines recommendations for reversing the
country's foreign policy failures and overcoming
destructive political tribalism at home
650 7 Diplomatic relations.|2fast
650 7 Ethnic relations|xPolitical aspects.|2fast
650 7 Exceptionalism.|2fast
650 7 Group identity|xPolitical aspects.|2fast
650 7 Identity politics.|2fast
650 7 Nationalism.|2fast
650 7 World politics.|2fast
650 7 Etniska relationer|xpolitiska aspekter|2sao
650 7 Internationell politik|2sao
650 7 Identitetspolitik|2sao
651 0 United States|xForeign relations
651 0 United States|xEthnic relations|xPolitical aspects
651 4 Förenta staterna
651 7 United States
653 USA
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