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2024 Dec 06, Case Bryant, cited in: Gail Russell Chaddock and Jingnan Peng, Fairness and empathy: 2 politics writers on how they anchor their work, in The Christian Science Monitor At the time, I thought there couldn’t possibly be any similarities between what I did over there and here, but I actually did more and more start to recognize some of the same sort of tribalistic attitudes and fear based on ignorance about the other.
Source: wiktionary
Closest matches include clannish, ethnic, ethnocentric, insular, most tribal.
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