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factional
(redirected from factionalisms)

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See: divergent, part, partial, partisan


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While each of the twelve Te Waimana meeting houses was built in its own peculiar circumstances, often involving local factionalisms, I have recently come to realise that their construction also reflects much wider processes of invention and traditionalisation occurring within Maori communities throughout New Zealand.
And while ethnic, religious, and political factionalisms are most clearly evident in such areas, they are not confined to them: factionalism is the principal problem plaguing some of the world's most powerful countries, most alarmingly Russia.
While liberals are not anticommunitarian in a militant sense, they reasonably refuse to apotheosize loyalty as the source of all meaning and the highest human good, insisting that a sharp distinction be made between group identifications to be encouraged and factionalisms and xenophobias to be discouraged.
 
 
 
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