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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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