[lbo-talk] Group identification

Miles Jackson cqmv at pdx.edu
Wed Jul 6 16:10:40 PDT 2005


On Wed, 6 Jul 2005, andie nachgeborenen wrote:


> So the Aryan race existed?

Sure, according to the social consensus at a specific point in history, for all practical social purposes, it did. This just seems trivially true to me: people invent and reinforce social groups in the basis of any real or imagined differences, and that social label will then have material effects. The Aryan race is a wonderful example.

Miles



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