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Communalistic

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com·mu·nal·ist  (k-myn-lst)
n.
1. An advocate of communal living.
2. One who is more interested in one's own minority or ethnic group than in society as a whole.
3. One who is deeply concerned about the quality of community life.

com·munal·istic adj.


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There was a felt need politically to enhance the sense of "we are all Malaysians" instead of the communalistic concept of separate communities of Malays, Chinese, or Indians.
Though sensitive to African communalistic continuities, Sidbury shows how much there had been "creative appropriation" of White Virginian s' individualistic legal, political, and evangelical religious modes.
This principle is designed to account for the role of the individual within the structure of communalistic life in which "familial and lineage status is an inescapable determinant of personhood at every stage.
 
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