Does tribe have anything to do with business?

[Bisolami]

Here in my country, there are some set of people who learn that you are from a particular tribe and they would not want to associate with you or even gave any business with you.

This got me wondering if tribe affects the way people think in business or so. Some people always want to make sure that they check your tribe whenever you want to have anything with them.

Does this really matter?
Is tribe really necessary while wanting to do a business with someone?

 

[Stardom22]

The tribe has nothing to do with the business. However, there are some places in country that certain tribe like to dominate and make business over there.

 

[Bisolami]

The tribe has nothing to do with the business. However, there are some places in country that certain tribe like to dominate and make business over there.

This happens everywhere and I think in any part of the world so one thing I do is make sure that the business I’m willing to have is done in a place where they all are not tribalistic

 

[nomad]

This kind of sentiments certainly hurt your business but sadly this kind of sentiments are also prevalent in our county

 

[cherry123]

No , normally it should not hurt a business. if you know that you need to buy a specific thing you Just have to go ahead with it

 

[Shavkat]

I think that any sets of people can do their own businesses. If we restrained them, then we are unfair to them.

 

[Fidelia]

That's why as a business person, you have to rise and be so excellent that people would forget your tribe when giving you jobs simply because you are very excellent.

 

[Ratine]

As far as the business is concerned, every person has the right to associate with any one as they wish.

 

[Stardom22]

ln some parts of my country there are some people that would patronize a specific tribe businessmen

 

[Starmix]

It is a normal thing, that is called racism or lowering the esteem of the tribal folks. They might have no education or they have experience differences so that matters most. Fear of the unknown might be the cause.

 

[Stardom22]

As far as the business is concerned, the tribes could not affect the growth of the business for that matter.

 

[Stardom22]

For me l can say that, trade has nothing to do with the tribes for sure

 

[Shavkat]

For me l can say that, trade has nothing to do with the tribes for sure

I agree with you. I always believe that business is a business. It does not need to be involved with the tribe concerns.

 

[eldavis]

Tribe doesn't really have anything to do with business, but there are cases where certain type of business are associated with a particular tribe simply because it's more common over there. Let's take shoe making in Nigeria for example, they mostly associate it to the northerners but there are others who do it.

 

[King Belieal]

If a tribe has a comparative advantage with doing a particular kind of business, and they leverage on that advantage, that tribe can be associated with that businesses.

 

[freelancermaria]

If I were the business owner, I would ensure that every customer is treated fairly, regardless of their tribal background. It is unfortunate that this kind of discrimination exists in other places.

 

[stan358]

I think business should not be based on tribe or religion. Business is global and this is what brings people together. Once there are needs there are people to help solve them..

 

[Kera]

The only thing is that the culture of a tribe might prevent them from doing some kinds of businesses.

 

[Miley]

In my country tribes does oo it a lot to do with businesse people here tend to buy from their tribe before others especially the Igbo's.