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Somali scammers will scam and rob each other as cheerfully as they scam us (see actual Somalia for evidence) - the idea that they are some kind of high-asabiyyah society which gains an advantage over the west through tribal unity is absurd. Tolerating this kind of behaviour in Minnesota was a (foolish) choice, not an skill level issue. See for instance this Patrick McKenzie post about how institutions that actually want to stop fraud (including regulated financial institutions) do so.
To support your point, It seems overall that the more 'tribalist' a culture is the more they are happy to abuse their fellow tribesmen and the less 'nationalist' they are. As an example, the European states with the strongest buy-in for mass nationalism a century ago, largely Northwestern European nations, are also the ones most onboard with 'globohomo' right now. The states where universalism is weakest now, such as Italy or Russia, also had the least popular buy in for nationalism historically. While Germans and Frenchmen where enthusiastically lining up to fight for La Patria, Russians and Southern Italians had to be coerced into fighting (to simplify the picture).
It seems worldwide the cultural divide is less 'universalist/individualists WEIRDos vs. nationalist/tribalist foreigners who united to mess with WEIRDOs' and more 'ideologically minded/high trust cultures vs. clannish cultures', and those clannish cultures abuse each other just as much as they abuse outsiders.
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