"In little more than a single century from 1820 to 1945, no less than fifty-nine million human animals were killed in inter-group clashes of one sort or another.... We describe these killings as men behaving "like animals," but if we could find a wild animal that showed signs of acting this way, it would be more precise to describe it as behaving like men." ― Desmond Morris, The Human Zoo: A Zoologist's Study of the Urban Animal More precisely, the current term for the concept addressed in my earlier link is neo tribalism (aka new), versus the erroneous, but common, concept of tribalism .
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