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n. - The act of making part of a group.

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  • This set a bad precedent, he said, because such tribalisation could be extended to the appointment of civil servants and diplomats as well as jobs in the army and police...
  • The deliberate tribalisation in Malaysia has led to a common nation-state with limited racial tensions (?)
  • Twenty years on, we cannot afford to ignore Europe's loss of self-confidence, the ethnification of politics, the descent into re-tribalisation.
  • Jamaica and the media should reject daggering and the tribalisation of dancehall into 'Gaza' and 'Gully' camps says L'Antoinette Stines founder of L'acadco dancers.
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