What they have in common is that they are voluntary tribes.
As neighborhoods and schools become more diverse, marriages become more mixed and social hierarchies breakdown, old lines are getting blurry. Voluntary tribes are a way of re-creating a sense of community.
These are emotionally intense affinity groups based on shared aims, obsessions or political crusades, not on DNA.
Taken from Howard Fineman's Newsweek column.
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