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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: jbe who wrote (85134)8/8/2000 10:23:22 PM
From: cosmicforce  Read Replies (2) of 108807
 
Not our notions of race, but our notions of ethnicity/statehood

Sure it is. When they got to Africa, it was populated by "Negros". When they got to the Orient, it was populated by "Orientals". They called them a race. Never mind that there had been back and forth breeding/trading/culture for millennia between Arab merchants and the tropical belts. Arabs were also crossing with Europeans. And similar things had been happening in Asia. 19th century people were locked in a perceptual loop. To them, continent of origin and geographic boundaries defined "race". They had no sophisticated notions about "ethnicity". The term didn't even come into use until 1950 according to my dictionary.

... most immigrants (with the notable exception of the blacks) abandoned the "home country" of their own accord.

Not sure you can count indentured servitude in this category. Or escaping famine like my Irish ancestors. Hardly a "choice" - more like an act of desperation.

In the 19th century, please note, expansionist nations (including the US) didn't give a hoot or a holler about "territorial integrity": they were too busy devouring other folks' territory.

Just my point. Been going on for eons without a written record. Not sure Normans, Vikings, Julius Caesar, Khan, Shaka or Amin ever gave that much consideration of how terrible it was to invade another country.
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