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one face, many ethnicities

Toronto, 2011.10.15

The fellow who sold me my aquarium today guessed that I was of "East European" origin; specifically, he thought maybe Serbian or Czech.

I used to have a web page on this site with a collection of all the "what's your ethnicity" guesses I've had along these lines over the years, I should dust that off. Because in addition to Serbian/Czech, I've also had Italian, Irish (partial credit, there), "Jewish", Inuit(!), and others. No one's ever guessed German or Mennonite (not that many people have ever heard of the latter) or Scots-Irish.

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Naturally the common people don't want war: Neither in Russia, nor in England, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.

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