The whole conception of ethnic groups is so complex and so vague that it might be good to abandon it altogether.
—Max Weber (1922/1968)
Economy and Society
[The present century has witnessed] explosions of nationalism, [of] racism and, in places, of religious bigotry, which, interestingly enough, not one among the most perceptive social thinkers of the nineteenth century had ever predicted.
—Isaiah Berlin (1992)
The Crooked Timber of Humanity
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