Quote Originally Posted by Furunculus View Post
you a taking what i say too literally. :p

familial sentiment = social/group identity.
Hard not to in written word of the net, the tone is all lost and banter takes hours. Familial is normally used for family as in ones relations.

Familial level societies were generally hunter-gatherer bands. Once we got over that level we entered Tribal societies... which a lot of these gangs in one form or another are reverting back to the hunter-gatherer groups.

I think most people in a modern nation state can identify them as a member of a family and still have loyalty to a nation. It's pretty easy to look at a large nation and see groups within it that one readily identifies with and others one doesn't. A nation is a composite of many many groups, after all a modern nation relies on modern economics which includes specialisation... and lots of people hang out in groups of like specialists be it doctors, engineers or gamers online.