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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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