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So an American who does not speak a foreign language, who lives in a small town, who has never been outside the county he was born in, and whose parents are fro
by prmph 5y ago
So an American who does not speak a foreign language, who lives in a small town, who has never been outside the county he was born in, and whose parents are from the same county, can be referred to as “tribal”?
- dghughes 5y agoYou can probably use the term clan as in Scottish clan in place of tribe.
- dismantlethesun 5y agoI use this comparison too but I’m curious are the Scott clans more like family groups? Do you intermarry within the same clan?
- dghughes 5y agoFrom what I understand a clan would be even more tight-knit not intermarry but marry into the clan. A woman from clan Campbell marries a man in clan MacDonald she would now be a part of MacDonald. A tribe or band could bring in someone not necessarily by marriage alone. It's a common thing all over the world whatever name it is given; clan, tribe, band, caste. There are probably some differences between all those terms but an anthropologist would have to explain it not me.
- SideburnsOfDoom 5y ago> and whose parents are from the same county With the vast majority of Americans, a few generations back the ancestors are are immigrants, and they can usually tell you from where.