TRIBALISM ASSIGNMENT
THE FIRST QUESTION FROM BOOK
1-Lord of the Flies gives us Piggy and Simon. The former is a firm believer in scientific progress, but he is also aware that human progress will be halted if “we get frightened of people”. Piggy is debilitated when the boys steal his glasses—his means of vision and clarity—and use them to start a fire. They instantly lose control of the flames, leading to the destruction of part of their new home. Rather than representing the first act of a united civilization, the making of fire signals the disunity that splits the group and leads, finally, to Piggy’s death at the hands of Jack’s tribe.
If Piggy is “progress” then Simon is “reason”. He knows that the Beast isn’t real and is in fact borne of the boys’ own fear. “However Simon thought of the beast,” we’re told, “there rose before his inward sight the picture of a human at once heroic and sick.” Despite this insight, Simon is regarded as weak and is shunned.After a lone expedition, he discovers that the Beast is no more than a dead airman—a casualty of the war raging far off in the distance, whose parachute has swept him onto the island. Simon returns to camp to share the news, but the boys’ imagination awakens a blind desire for blood. They no longer see a fellow human being, only a threat to their society. Simon’s screams are drowned out by the “tearing of teeth and claws”.
Quotes and explanation pertaining to violence due to tribalism
1-Piggy is afraid of Jack, who bullies and makes fun of him. In chapter 5, Piggy who is insightful and intelligent tells Ralph that he is scared of Jack:If you’re scared of someone you hate him but you can’t stop thinkig about him. You kid yourself that he’s all right really, an’ then when you see him again; it’s like asthma an’ you can’t breathe. I tell you what. He hates you too, Ralph-“
2-The painted group moved round Samneric nervously and unhandily….”Tie them up!”…Now the group… felt the power in thier hands…Jack was inspired…”See? They do what I want.”
3-“Roger gathered a handful of stones and began to throw them. Yet there was a space round Henry, perhaps six yards in diameter, into which he dare not throw. Here, invisible yet strong, was the taboo of the old life. Round the squatting child was the protection of parents and school and policemen and the law.
1-At our core, we humans are tribal. Constantly, our subconscious is bombarded with cues that identify who is “us” and “them.” Perceived similarities of status and values make it much more likely that we will connect and form lasting bonds with our fellows. We all need to belong to groups that is why we love certain clubs because we feel that people have resemblance with your identity, you like to hang out with people of similar interest that is why we all humans are tribal animals.
2-The t-shirt experiment is very significant in relating to the basic instinct of children. When the children were being informed about the charectarstick of children belonging to their group, they automatically were attracted to the people of their group and they only remember positive aspects of people in their group and remember negative aspects of other groups this implies that people only tend to appreciate people of their group and try to victimize people of other groups .
3-Neurological studies confirm that group identity can even produce physical sensations of satisfaction. Seeing group members prosper seems to activate our brains’ “reward centers” even if we receive no benefit ourselves. Under certain circumstances, our reward centers can also be activated when we see members of an out-group failing or suffering. Mina Cikara, a psychologist who runs Harvard’s Intergroup Neuroscience Lab, has noted that this is especially true when one group fears or envies another—when, for example, “there’s a long history of rivalry and not liking each other. “This is the dark side of the tribal instinct.
5-Social mobility, movement of individuals, families, or groups through a system of social hierarchy or stratification. If such mobility involves a change in position, especially in occupation, but no change in social class, it is called “horizontal mobility.” An example would be a person who moves from a managerial position in one company to a similar position in another. If, however, the move involves a change in social class, it is called “vertical mobility” and involves either “upward mobility” or “downward mobility.” An industrial worker who becomes a wealthy businessman moves upward in the
class system; a landed aristocrat who loses everything in a revolution moves downward in the system.
Source-https://www.britannica.com/topic/social-mobility
6-Economic inequalities are most obviously shown by people’s different positions within the economic distribution – income, pay, wealth. However, people’s economic positions are also related to other characteristics, such as whether or not they have a disability, their ethnic background, or whether they are a man or a woman. While The Equality Trust recognises the importance of these measures, the focus of our work is specifically the gap between the well-off and the less well-off in the overall economic distribution. This is reflected in the choice of terms and statistics in this section.
Source-https://www.equalitytrust.org.uk/how-economic-inequality-defined
7-Countries with higher rates of economic inequality tend to have greater intergenerational persistence of advantage and, by implication, lower social mobility. Socioeconomic status, and thus various dimensions of mobility, can be assessed by focusing on an individual’s occupation, education, income/earnings, or wealth. Yet we are struggling to make sense of it. By default, observers often define these developments through the familiar lens of election results and left vs right politics: a “shift to the right” or “rise of the far right”. But much more is at play. Issues of identity, belonging and tribalism are supplanting the longstanding left vs right spectrum once defined by attitudes towards the size of government and intervention in free markets.
8-Political tribalism thrives under conditions of economic insecurity and lack of opportunity. For hundreds of years, economic opportunity and upward mobility helped the United States integrate vastly different peoples more successfully than any other nation. The collapse of upward mobility in the United States should be viewed as a national emergency.
9- 1 video-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1IOJBMyzkFo
2 video-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNLb0yN_O94
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