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Nepotism that scaled up and gave itself a flag.
means The practice of favoring your own clan, tribe, or in-group in politics, business, or hiring — loyalty to bloodline or faction placed above merit or fairness.
from Built from 'clan' — from Scottish Gaelic 'clann,' meaning children or offspring, itself tracing back to Latin 'planta' (a sprout or shoot), as in a family branching like a plant — plus the suffix '-ism,' which turns a thing into a system or ideology. So clannism is literally 'the ideology of the family tree,' loyalty to shared descent formalized into a governing principle.
- core logic
- loyalty to bloodline beats loyalty to merit
- ancient roots
- predates nation-states by thousands of years
- modern disguise
- often rebranded as networking or family values
- true cost
- talent outside the clan gets quietly erased