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From: jack@boring.UUCP
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Subject: Re: `Tribe': derogatory?
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Date: Wed, 15-May-85 12:43:19 EDT
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I think a 'tribe' could be described as: a (relatively small)group 
of people who think of themselves as a nation, but are not 
(in the international political sense).

Note that with 'nation' in the first sense, I mean a group of
people with strong internal ties, and weak external ones.

Also, the 'relatively small' clause excludes for instance the
Basques.
-- 
	Jack Jansen, jack@mcvax.UUCP
	The shell is my oyster.