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“The raw data of anthropologists can be misleading; it can make the differences in values between cultures appear greater than they are...It is only…

— James Rachels

“Find a reason to turn your nose up at a culture, to denigrate a people because they are different, and it's not such a…

— Ronald H. Balson

Anthropology has always struggled with an intense, fascinated repulsion towards its subject… [The anthropologist] submits himself to the exotic to confirm his own inner…

— Susan Sontag

“It is fear that turns minor difference into major, that makes the gulf between ethnicities into a distinction between species, between human and non-human.”

— from The Warrior's Honour, by Michael Ignatieff

“[T]he choice of human groupings for cultural comparisons is not a natural or scientific choice, but a political one.”

— Pascal Boyer

“America’s ladder of races, Jewish is white but also some rungs below white. A bit confusing,”

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“They’re people,’ he said. ‘Full marks for comparative anthropology.”

— Terry Pratchett

“people living in unequal societies spend more time worrying about how others see them.”

— Rutger Bregman

“The greatest discovery any alien anthropologist could make about our culture is our overriding response to failure: If it didn't work last year, do…

— Daniel Quinn

“Stereotypes become extinct faster than there appear new impressions concerning our reality, culture and consciousness...”

— Mykyta Isagulov

“...that ambiguous area of culture where something unfailingly political, though separate from the political choices of the day, infiltrates judgment and language.”

— Roland Barthes

“wrapping their ideas in goodness, segregationists and assimilationists have rarely confessed to their racist public policies and ideas.”

— Ibram X. Kendi