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For most of human history, Jiang argues, people did not use modern categories of race, culture, ethnicity, borders, and states; Viking identity was fluid and alliance-based.
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Ethnicity
For most of human history, Jiang argues, people did not use modern categories of race, culture, ethnicity, borders, and states; Viking identity was fluid and alliance-based.
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"...of human history we didn't have a concept of race, culture, ethnicity, and borders, and states, okay? These are all modern concepts that we..."
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"They didn't think we're Vikings, we are not Greeks, we're not Jews, we're not that way. The Germans broke the sorry, the Vikings their..."
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"...human history. A people in the borderlands, a tribe, a small ethnicity, are able to conquer a great empire. And the law of asymmetry..."
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"...know, they want to create a grand religion that unites all ethnicities. When you turn the other minorities against the Iranians, then the Persian..."
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"...okay? So the first major limitation is that Britain had an ethnicity. It had a race."
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"...became uh the standard of wealth in the world now the ethnicity is another problem okay and so what america did that was"
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"very clever is tell the world we are not an ethnicity okay we're not a land what we really are is a game all..."
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"...play. But that just means also eliminating the history and the ethnicity of the place. Okay? So the concept that America creates is the..."
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"...look at white woman and how interested they are in other ethnicities. If you are white, okay, Caucasian, they're very interested. In fact, they're..."
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"...Russia is divided into so many different groups. You have different ethnicities, you have different political programs, you have different orientations, okay? And this..."
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"there's no concept of nation or race or ethnicity it was very common for people to just intermixed together okay but then what happened..."
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"...exactly so all the information that they're looking at today is ethnicity your um They want to keep, they basically want to keep Asians..."
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