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Samaria was a sort of an early Jewish deal, they took the Torah as the real deal but kind of fell behind as Judaism split and moved off in a new direction (or something like that).
The reason that, in the above tired platitude, the Samaritan is referred to as a good Samaritan is that when these two jewish tribes went their own ways they did so with some animosity, the allusion in the parable is that all samaritans are bastards by default, but this fine fellow stands out for his kindness.