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While ethnocentrism is a natural inclination, converting it into a formal political ideology requires defining the "ethny" that one is ethnocentric about.
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Too many american blacks are productive, law-abiding, contributing members of society to warrant a blanket judgement of their ethny.
The Volokh Conspiracy » The Declaration of Independence and the Case for Non-Ethnic Secession:
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They want the law to treat people not as members of an ethny or extended family but as individual and equal citizens under the law.
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If the members of some ethny could 'all just get along', they could conquer the world, and likely would.
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The nearest available mechanism to accomplish that intervention is the modern nation state, and it is the prerogative of the state to ameliorate that struggle - not the prerogative of the family (i.e. citizens and ethny left to themselves).
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A similar gambit may have been played in Belgium where, again, a Francophone ethny is a net tax eater of revenues garnished from a more robust Fleming section of the country, while enjoying influence in the country's governance and official culture in excess of its numerical and economic weight.
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There are other important goods to uphold, including those relating to family, ethny and nation.
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No elimination of all preference for one’s own kin or ethny over those more distantly related?
qroqqa commented on the word ethny
Not in OED. Possibly coined by ethologist Frank Salter: apparently a near-synonym for 'ethnic group' but focusing on the genetical and sociobiological aspects. (Salter writes in favour of ethnocentrism as an extension of kin altruism.)
February 11, 2009