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Ideological Nomadism

The terminology first appeared in the book Tribalizing America: A Social Evolution of the American Society. The book is an essay on the "emerging identity crisis" of the American society.

The author, Ifezue Okoli, believes that America has wandered from her foundational and essential character, i.e. the belief that the concept of individual rights is the bedrock of the providential idea called America, and has become a nation increasingly shaped by the politics of group rights over individual rights. Hence, America is slowly but surely going through a process that would eventually lead to a tribalized society or something similar to it, much like the older societies of the world.

Okoli believes that the contemporary definition and application of multiculturalism, propelled by the excesses of political correctness and unrestrained cultural relativism, is creating a profusely divergent society, one akin to the oxymoronic concept "diversity in unity".

The term ideological nomadism describes a situation where people who have nothing to believe in would believe in anything and people who have nothing to live for would die for anything. In a multi-racial society where racial stereotypes push people into a state of paranoia, such that they become disadvantaged in terms of their convictions about themselves in society, ultimately they develop a sense of hostility towards their society and would become ideologically unstable and vulnerable, with the propensity to embrace any ideology, particularly ones that appear to be diametrical to their society, for which they have hostility.