Obama despises Western and Eastern cultures. It appears his loathing of Western culture is likely based the history of colonialism. And Eastern cultures are to the present quite xenophobic, even somewhat racist. Obama conveys the impression that he is only at ease with the tribal cultures of Africa. Indeed, Obama was and is very tribal in his political career.
Possibly. It's something to think about.
Obama conveys the impression that he is only at ease with the tribal cultures of Africa. Indeed, Obama was and is very tribal in his political career.
By process of elimination? He's not European or Asian, so he must be African?
I doubt Obama would really be comfortable in Kenya, or that he was at home when he was there.
When people say that Chicago politics is "tribal" it's a metaphor. It means people get an identity from the way different groups fight it out with each other.
It doesn't mean that Daley and Obama and other Chicago politicians would really be happy sitting around in a mud hut listening to the elders tell stories of great hunts and recount creation myths for the hundredth time and watching the same old tribal dances.
Obama has one foot in an academic culture that's critical of traditional ways and another in Chicago's political world, rather than in East Africa.