"As the global expansion of Indian and Chinese restaurants suggests, xenophobia is directed against foreign people, not foreign cultural imports."

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Source : "Mapping the Nation". Book edited by Gopal Balakrishnan and Benedict Anderson, 1996.

Eric Hobsbawm

#Xenophobia Quotes #People Quotes #Chinese Quotes

“I enjoy my pettiness with a dose of wit.”

Source : David Liss (2008). “The Whiskey Rebels: A Novel”, p.256, Random House
“Sometimes the best hiding place is the one that's in plain sight.”
“Such a system would be very, very expensive and laborious to have, given the kinds of border we have. Scientists and engineers aren't even sure they have the technology to make it work”
“...You have to pass an exam, and the jobs that you get are either to shine shoes, or to herd cows, or to tend pigs. Thank God, I don't want any of that! Damn it! And besides that they smack you for a reward; they call you an animal and it's not true, a little kid, etc.. Oh! Damn Damn Damn Damn Damn!”
“I think there's no doubt that George Washington was the most important American to this time.”

Source : "Interview With Kevin Gutzman On George Washington". "Mike Church Show", www.mikechurch.com. May 1, 2013.
“On the one hand, there is no reason that a black person needs to live a portion of his or her life being concerned about the people of color around him. On the other hand, if you don't you're crazy.”
“Science gains from it [the pendulum] more than one can expect. With its huge dimensions, the apparatus presents qualities that one would try in vain to communicate by constructing it on a small [scale], no matter how carefully. Already the regularity of its motion promises the most conclusive results. One collects numbers that, compared with the predictions of theory, permit one to appreciate how far the true pendulum approximates or differs from the abstract system called 'the simple pendulum'.”
“In no way am I supporting or suggesting that a Conservative government is a good thing, far from it.”

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