Kumbaya 一詞是英語Come by here的音轉，曾是20年代的黑人靈歌，也是50年代美國人野營時喜愛的歌曲，有著和諧歡樂的含義。
這個詞現在經常被政客使用，用來表達對某種一團和氣的場面的鄙夷不屑。於是在美國政治話語中，Kumbaya成了一種嘲諷。
Kumbaya - Wikipedia
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Kum ba yah ("Come by Here") is a spiritual song first recorded in the 1920s. It became a standard campfire song in Scouting and summer camps and enjoyed ...
Urban Dictionary: kumbaya
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The Kumbaya Law: In any conversation where some of the participants hold an opinion to the left of other participants, someone with the more conservative ...
blandly pious and naively optimistic
At the risk of sounding too kumbaya, I felt as if I had finally come home.
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