Y'all. I sat through a gruelling examination of tribalism in our anglophone subsection last evening. The speaker was not coy to remind me he was giving me a "free lecture", and it was more of a conversation, but he added more new information than anyone else could think of. So..

I had some thoughts and my perspective could be best explained through the realities of the evening.

We were 4, two from each region of ANG CMR. Both of us from my region grew up out of it. The lecture we were getting was about how people from where we're from are tribalistic.

Neither of us in the room would know how to act based on this particular bias if we even tried.

We heard accounts of pple who came before and pple today who exhibit the tribalism we were being lectured on. As individuals, this wasn't for us, but this was about our pple.

I could only be grateful for the lecture, I can cite an incident from my life that corroborates it. But in this living room, in that moment, my lecturer friend was exchanging with non-tribalistic pple from my region.

And I think this matters. It's why my perspective was...

...as real as the different malicious biases in the world are, including tribalism, we should leave accusations of persons as such as a last recourse when searching motive for whatever their action was. It takes away from a proper study on the person when we open with this..

..and readily amounts to a generalisation of his/her clan because of exactly the type of characterisation that it is. The cascade from there is divisiveness, sentimentality, outrage and ultimately a loss of objectivity traded for virtue signalling and a passing down of more hate.

Understanding fully what pushing and confirming this bias does makes it clear there's no positivity that can be found in it. It is destructive to all parties involved, and holds back a people even more than actual deeds possibly could. I was clearly throwing water on a duck's...

..back with this, but I really stand to make as clear as possible the fatality of such thoughts.

We've really, really got enough problems without furthering prejudices in this country. No tribe can do anything worthwhile on their own. The unity clichés, are clichés for a reason.