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Eric Hobsbawm
Eric Hobsbawm
British Historian
Born: Jun 8, 1917
Against Even Generating Group Patriotism People
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It seems that American patriotism measures itself against an outcast group. The right Americans are the right Americans because they're not like the wrong Americans, who are not really Americans. Eric Hobsbawm
Patriotism Group Outcast Seems Wrong Like Because Itself American Against Really Measures Who Right
Nations without a past are contradictions in terms. What makes a nation is the past, what justifies one nation against others is the past, and historians are the people who produce it. Eric Hobsbawm
People Nation Past Others One Nation Terms Without Makes Historians Contradictions Nations Against Justifies Produce Who
Utopianism is probably a necessary social device for generating the superhuman efforts without which no major revolution is achieved. Eric Hobsbawm
Revolution Superhuman Generating Device Major Without Efforts Achieved Which Social Necessary
As the global expansion of Indian and Chinese restaurants suggests, xenophobia is directed against foreign people, not foreign cultural imports. Eric Hobsbawm
People Indian Restaurants Directed Global Xenophobia Foreign Imports Cultural Expansion Against Chinese
There is not much that even the most socially responsible scientists can do as individuals, or even as a group, about the social consequences of their activities. Eric Hobsbawm
Group Consequences Responsible About Individuals Most Scientists Social Much Even Activities Socially

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