I have had debates on here about various issues. One of the debates was about why Africa is always in disarray.
So I talked to a guy from Nigeria and asked him why?
He looked at me and said.
It's simple of why Africa is in bad shape. He said....
Too many difference of opinions of how things should be. He said for example.
In Nigeria. There are over 500 different tribes. With various languages and cultures.
I told him my doctor was from Nigeria to. He said... What is his name.
I told him.
He goes.
Ah... an EBO man with a smile.
I said what's the smile about.
He said.. No offense to your doctor. But we DON'T TRUST EBO guys.
I said why..
He said they are shady and are money hustlers.
I said wow.
He said there are tons of African tribes that HATE EACH other.
Basically he said it's no different than DIE HARD LIBERALS fighting against DIE HARD CONVERSATIVES.
He said.. just imagine if there were 500+ political parties all with various thought processes. He said how much in fighting would there be.
He said. it has nothing to do with intelligence or anything like that.
He said it's all about ego. Such as "Our tribe" is better then your "tribe".
I thought this was interesting.
You get tribes when groups of people are isolated due to geography. They develop differences, which can develop into something serious enough to fight over.
Example: People here in eastern NC think the pork barbecue in western NC is crap and would never eat it. And the people in the western part of the state think the same of eastern NC barbecue. Of course I "know" eastern NC barbecue is the best in the world.
Good analogy
They say herding populations develop more tribalism than farming populations, because of competition vs. cooperation. I'm not sure how that relates to NC barbecue though.
I'm into genealogy, and one huge difference between eastern NC and central to western NC is that eastern NC is mostly of English descent, and the rest of the state has more German ancestry. There is a lot of mixture, but there are still many thousands of families that haven't moved in hundreds of years.