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100 1  Chua, Amy,|eauthor. 
245 10 Political tribes :|bgroup instinct and the fate of nations
       /|cAmy Chua. 
264  1 New York, New York :|bPenguin Press, an imprint of Penguin
       Random House LLC,|c2018. 
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. 
505 0  Introduction -- American exceptionalism and the sources of
       U.S. group blindness abroad -- Vietnam -- Afghanistan -- 
       Iraq -- Terror tribes -- Venezuela -- Inequality and the 
       tribal chasm in America -- Democracy and political 
       tribalism in America -- Epilogue. 
520    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. 
520    "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 unwinnable 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 argues 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."--Jacket. 
650  0 World politics. 
650  0 Group identity|xPolitical aspects. 
650  0 Nationalism. 
650  0 Identity politics. 
650  0 Identity politics|zUnited States. 
650  0 Nationalism|zUnited States. 
650  0 Exceptionalism|zUnited States. 
650  4 Group identity|xPolitical aspects|zUnited States. 
650  4 Political culture|zUnited States. 
650  4 Identity politics|zUnited States. 
650  7 POLITICAL SCIENCE|xInternational Relations|xGeneral.
       |2bisacsh 
650  7 POLITICAL SCIENCE|xHistory & Theory.|2bisacsh 
650  7 POLITICAL SCIENCE|xPolitical Ideologies|xGeneral.|2bisacsh
651  0 United States|xForeign relations. 
651  0 United States|xEthnic relations|xPolitical aspects. 
651  1 United States|xPolitics and government|y21st century. 
651  4 United States|xForeign relations|y21st century. 
651  4 United States|xPolitics and government|y21st century. 
655  7 Political culture|xU.S. states|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01069275 
655  7 Identity politics|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01747531 
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