Ethnic Nationalism
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Pakistan & India as Imperial Nation States
X.T.M reports a conference claim that India and Pakistan are post-imperial states smothering small nations, does not adopt that frame, and argues that ethnicity resurges in Pakistan because Islam has…
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The War Over Myth
The author takes Harari’s claim that shared myth let Cro-Magnons overcome Neanderthals and argues that myth continues to drive conflict between closely related peoples, from Athens and Sparta to Greeks…
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In Burma, of Burma, but not Burmese…yet
Reading a New York Times report on Burma, the author argues the persecution of the Rohingya is not driven by religion alone, since many Burmese Muslims are of mixed descent,…
