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Alain Finkielkraut1 quote
Civilized people must get off their high horse and learn with humble lucidity that they too are an indigenous variety. — Alain Finkielkraut · 1988Herodotus1 quote
If one were to order all mankind to choose the best set of rules in the world, each group would, after due consideration, choose its own customs; each group regards its own as being by far the best. — Herodotus · 430 BCWilliam Graham Sumner1 quote
Ethnocentrism is the...view of things in which one's own group is the center of everything, and all others are scaled and rated with reference to it...Each group nourishes its own pride and vanity, boasts itself superior, exalts its own divinities, and looks with contempt on outsiders. — William Graham Sumner · 1906