Strife 1100 Words You Need Week 19 Day 1

Strife 1100 Words You Need

Strife 1100 Words You Need

/straɪf/ (noun)

a bitter conflict or disagreement among people or groups, discord, dispute, debate, argument, trouble, contention, fighting, brawl, friction, rivalry:

Nations are often based on ethnicity, but ethnicity itself is a mystery, or it should be. Ethnicity is the notion that a certain group of people share common interests and should unite toward the realization of common goals, by virtue of shared traditions, often language, and in most cases descent. We should not think of ethnicity as a sign of political immaturity, as a primitive phenomenon characteristic of political order before large nations, democratic institutions, and modern communications. Ethnic conflict can re-emerge in formerly unitary republics, populist nationalistic politicians often work their way to prominence through democratic channels, and mass communication has made xenophobia much easier to transmit. Far from being a transient phase in human history, ethnic strife seems to be a baseline to which social groups often revert. The mystery here is (or should be) that so many people, around the world, find this notion of an ethnic group natural and compelling.

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Antonym: harmony, peace, alliance

Adjective: strifeless

Farsi: ستيزه ،نزاع ،دعوا،سعى بليغ ،تقلا،کشاکش