January 09, 2007
The New American Tribes
I cannot do this justice in a short post, but the Assistant Village Idiot has a series of entries identifying "tribes" (not Indian) in the U.S., which break the population down by areas such as political & philosophical divisions. Let me encourage you to scroll through his site for specifics, as he is a much better and deeper writer and thinker on this than am I.
He has tentatively identified the following "tribes:" Arts & Humanities, Science & Technology, God & Country, Diversity, Government & Union, Military, Criminal Underclass, and Business. He is looking for input, and we all have opinions, which can help to refine these.
I tend to classify people by how they think, as how they think determines what fields they study rather than the other way around. Examples: Right brained (emotional) people go into arts and academics while left brained (logical) people go into business, as those fields fit their comfort zones. But, that's just my opinion.
Check out AVI's site to help him and come back to let us know your views on the tribe classifications. It makes for interesting discussion.
Posted by Woody M. at January 9, 2007 08:30 PM | TrackBackI've been away on holiday. I looked in on Asst. Village Idiot's site and was (no surprise) impressed. I posted a few comments.
Very thought provoking stuff.
Posted by Tad at January 10, 2007 01:07 PM
Tad, AVI goes into much deeper thinking than do I. G.M. does, too. I'm impressed with both of them.
Because of work and related time limitations, I usually just limit my posts to reactions on issues and events rather than deep analyses of them, and I just come out, shooting from the hip, and say how something looks in my eyes.
On the tribe subject, AVI has given thought to something that I wouldn't have ever addressed except to say that the people on the left who disagree with me are idiots. He addresses that much better.
Posted by Woody at January 10, 2007 02:59 PM
