Chua argues that America must rediscover a national identity that transcends political tribes. .orange-text-color {font-weight:bold; color: #FE971E;}Ask Alexa to read your book with Audible integration or text-to-speech.
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Political Tribes: Group Instinct and the Fate of Nations Amy Chua Penguin Press, 2018 This is a highly significant book, but for a reason the author almost certainly doesn't have in mind. People "will sacrifice, and even kill and die, for their groups." In it, Amy Chua argues that tribalism—and the social dysfunction and violence that comes along with it—is the norm all over the world, but the United States managed to escape its worst impulses thanks to a shared sense of national identity. These concepts have long been intertwined in the US's national consciousness, and promote ideals of individualism, human freedom, immigration and so on. Political Tribes: Group Instinct and the Fate of Nations She joined the Yale faculty in 2001 after teaching at Duke Law School. The difficulty today, she says, is that the US “[is] in a perilous new situation: with nearly no one standing up for an America without identity politics, for an American identity that transcends and unites the identities of all the country’s many subgroups.” (p 11) The political and social ideals that created the US national identity and united the ethnically-diverse citizens under one flag is in danger of fracturing along tribal lines.
Whether you lean left or right, this book will make you uncomfortable. 1725 Bear Valley Parkway | Escondido, CA 92027. Copyright 2018 Gale, Cengage Learning. The problem is that I don’t like the idea of shutting out ideas I disagree with, or unfollowing someone because I find their opinions offensive. I’d see my friends’ status updates and new pictures, smile and ‘like’ one or two things, and go back ready for another round with David Hume. Brooke Ventura is a writer. In Political Tribes, she demonstrates once again that she ranks with the keenest observers of the contemporary landscape, establishing convincingly that “Humans are tribal,” and that this reality holds significant implications for America if we truly are to achieve a ‘more perfect union.’” —General David Petraeus, US Army (Ret), former commander of coalition forces in Iraq and Afghanistan and former Director of the CIA“Amy Chua speaks hard truths that no one can ignore.
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Current slide {CURRENT_SLIDE} of {TOTAL_SLIDES}- Top picked items. — Financial Times “True to form, Amy Chua presents a provocative prescription to cure our political ills. This is my third book I have read by Amy Chua, and I have always enjoyed her work. As of January 2011, she is most noted for her parenting memoir, “Humans are tribal. Copyright © 2020 White Horse Inc. Site by Mere.
She traces ethnic tribalism through numerous U.S. foreign policy blunders (Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq, Venezuela) to built the framework for how political tribalism is influencing the present moment in the United States. Amy Chua gets into some really dangerous territory in this book but keeps her head as she explores some explosive trip wires of race, class, ethnicity, and identity.
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