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Saturday, August 26, 2006

The Tendency to Value Our Own Form

“The tendency to value our own form of civilization as higher, not as dearer to our hearts, than that of the whole rest of mankind is the same as that which prompts the actions of primitive man who considers every stranger his enemy, and who is not satisfied until the enemy is killed.”
- Franz Boas


Wright, Robert. 2000. Nonzero – The Logic of Human Destiny . Vintage Books: New York.

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