Hatred of the other is endemic to the human race. Generally tribal people have a name for themselves which means 'the people.' Inuit which the people we used to call Eskimos now prefer to be called means 'the people' in their language. That implies that those not Inuit are not people. The myth of the chosen people in the Bible means non-Jews are not chosen by God. That puts down non-Jews. Christians then regarded themselves as the new chosen, 'a community of saints'. Marxists regarded the proletariat as a chosen class to lead humanity to a secular millennium.

It would be a movement against race hatred to recognise the 'chosen people' myth for what it is and rid ourselves of it and all its variants. Marxism, Christianity, Islam, nationalism, racism and fascism are all variants. The concept used to serve a purpose which was to unite a particular group in solidarity better to struggle against others. However, in a multicultural society and an international community any sort of exceptionalism promotes conflict.

There is no chosen race, class, religion, nation, political ideology or ethnic group. Exceptionalism has become merely a hate promoting device. Can we transcend tribalism?

David,

I cannot see it ever happening naturally.
You can legislate against tribalism but that is not a solution.
I think its core is as basic as the family group and is driven by a survival instinct.
Maybe some time in the distant future under circumstances we cannot visulise at this early stage of our development.
Despite our clever toys we are as a species a long way from being deemed civilised.

Take it easy.

SD

Ah, if only....

But wait! One of the underlying drivers of fear-of-the-other is low grade religiosity and this bizarre notion of 'Faith'.

If we worked towards teaching children to think and question the reasons behind our world, we might make inroads into reducing blind faith and its coercive influence on the empty head.

why should we
the problem isnt tribalism..but globalism..that creates a tribalistic loyalty..[what is the commonwealth game..or football but tribalistic]

its not about trancending tribalism
but seeing that faulse pride goeth before the fall

we are all children of the one good god of mercy and grace
our 'tribe' is only a matter of accident

you picked a good topic david
its important that we do some serious thinking about it

ban sport before banning tribalism
just cause 'your team' won..dont mean you won

Going beyond the superficial of mere prejudice is the fact that every group of people prefers to organize themselves under a specific system of management that works best for them, and these vary substantially between people to the point that they would become incompatible.

So ultimately no- in the future the world will divide itself (albeit probably peacefully) based on functional compatibility, secularism vs religiousness, accepted social norms, etc.

Be honest! We cannot even get local neighbours to be on pleasant speaking terms over noise, dogs, boundaries etc, how do we expect countries?