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Jiang's methodological priority: cultural values explain historical behavior more than genetic similarity.
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Culture over genetic affinity
A source-grounded reading of a long Dante seminar that starts with a student dreaming of a tree across water and ends by redefining Purgatory as democratic hope, free will, dangerous guidance, prayer for the...
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A source-grounded reading of a long Dante seminar that starts with a student dreaming of a tree across water and ends by redefining Purgatory as democratic hope, free will, dangerous guidance, prayer for the...
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"...In this class, we focus on cultural values rather than genetic affinity. Okay. So over time, what will happen to the Western steppes is..."
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"...be, um, that final moment is when you realize your greatest affinity with the father. So you're thinking, these are the things that make..."
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"...lot of overlap okay there's gonna be a lot of shared affinity a lot of shared interests did they have french contacts yes did..."
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"...party would combine American society's quest for stability with its historical affinity for innovation. Relying on scientific growth to produce the means for dealing..."
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"...stand to be around you, I don't have any sense of affinity towards you whatsoever. So, yeah, that one's very strange to me. Now,..."
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"...American culture, watching Friends, watching Seinfeld. So they have a deep affinity. For for America. The last point I'll make is this. People talk..."
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"...all his Trump towers in UAE, Qatar, Saudi Arabia. He's got affinity with his investors that was funded by MBS and ran by Jared..."
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"...Americans fall in love with Japan I think there's a natural affinity between Americans and Chinese and that's why I think in a long..."
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"...two -thirds of the population were Shias. And therefore, they had affinity with Iran. And a third were Sunnis. So, what happened was that..."
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The host begins by asking how Jiang became a public analyst and ends by asking how history itself gets rewritten.
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Genghis Khan is not explained by saying the Mongols were uniquely evil.
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