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People here refer to themselves by using the name of a long forgotten tribe. Pure Transcendental fantasy. To me, food based identity-signifiers seem much more to be a staple of immanence, cf. Laotians: Often the Lao will refer to themselves as luk khao niaow, which can be translated as children or descendants of sticky rice. [Wiki] To think how much war and strife would have been prevented were we to refer to ourselves and fellow strangers as mere Hummus eaters, Breakers of the Pita, Fryers of the Chickpea...
Posted on: Tue, 13 Jan 2015 03:44:41 +0000

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