Looks like some on this thread are “Absolutists”, however civilized vs. tribal comparison is “relative” and it changes with time.
At this time, West Europeans are more civilized than many many other societies. In the same way most of the members of OIC are at the bottom of the heap, and more tribal compared to the West Europeans.
Here are very simple and general definitions for you.
— Civilized societies are advanced “within their time”. They are active in producing new art, music, literature, and scientific ideas. They reward and protect their “innovators” and attract new innovators from all over the world.
—Tribal societies are primitive “within their time”. They are generally dead intellectually and thus they produce very little new art, music, literature, and science. They censor, kill, harass, or neck-chop, or simply drive out their innovators in the name of “old tribal traditions” and or religion.
Sometimes even civilized societies start killing their “innovators” in the name of traditions or religion, and thus they commit intellectual suicide and become tribal.
Occasionally some tribal societies emulate the current civilized societies. They copy or borrow the latest intellectual pursuits, and thus change themselves into civilized societies.
However most of the time, tribal societies are simply destroyed, occupied, driven out of their homeland (some or all of these), and thus they just vanish from the face of the earth.
Sorry to be straightforward about this topic. There is no sugar coating for this bitter pill.