Elizabeth Rata is to be commended for her cogent and timely article published in the NZ Herald on tribalism and its effect on societies.
It requires little reflection on international history over the past century to conclude that the slaughter of humans over all of Africa,
The Balkans, the Middle East, Turkey, India, Sri Lanka. China, Indonesia, Japan, Eastern Europe, Indonesia, The Philippines et al has been the result of Tribal Cultures.
Societies, of diverse ethnicities, have existed side by side over long periods before some event, political, social, religious, economic ignites the tinder box and long suppressed grievances explode and mindless savagery follows.
It then becomes Us and Them, the biological need for the Tribe to survive. Is this what we want for New Zealand?

Bryan Johnson, Omokoroa.