clannish

In the places where it's most prevalent you do tend to see clannish behavior and indifference/viciousness to the out-group.

By making cousin marriage taboo, it encouraged children to move to a different town and made people less clannish.

High trust vs low trust societies tend toward egalitarian vs clannish communities respectively.

Jews are the most clannish people I have ever met and the most prone to shameless nepotism (speaking as Jew).

The Shah was unlikeable (or untrustworthy I think, if I remember correctly), so the old feudal/clannish/agrarian society wouldn't really support him.

To be tribal/clannish/insider-outsider also seems to be an innate human trait.

That said, we are a clannish bunch, and biradari (and every other South Asian language's equivalent of that word) is our guanxi.

Westerners fail to understand tribalism, or any clannish attitudes.

They are clannish, rumor and reputation driven etc.

Are families socialist, or clannish and nepotistic?

Many people actually view Americans and southern Europeans as more collectivist, in the clannish sense, because of their reliance on family, extended-family, and churches for safety nets.

Americans have no trouble seeing tribalism or clannish behavior when its in the Middle East, or in Africa, but seem to think America is differentnt (a phenomenon that also has a name: American Exceptionalism).

People will continue to write "popular press" articles about builing compilers using flex and bison, possibly targetting C as an intermediate language, until the ML community (or equivalent) becomes less clannish.

I know nothing about India but the "family-centric" stuff is easier to understand as a problem if you phrase it "clannish".

The upper classes looked down on them as excessively prone to drunkenness and laziness, as clannish and untrustworthy, and especially as lacking honor and a sense of national spirit."[2] "The difference from serfs elsewhere was that the farmer did not directly own the life and property of the homesteader (Husmann), but in most cases, he practically did.

I haven't done a complicated study or anything, but if I were to guess, just from reading about various cultures throughout history, I would figure that clannish extended families were more successful historically than the "two adults form a unit, have N kids and raise them until they leave to find mates and then goto 1" model of the nuclear family.

Clannish behavior is most prevalent in high-cousin-marriage societies, and you have a more expanded circle of trust when the familial relatedness is more distributed.