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This view is an instance of what my friend Skip Gates has called cultural geneticism,80 It has, in Bertrand Russell's wicked phrase, the virtues of theft over honest toil. On this view, you earn rights to culture that is marked with the mark of your race— or your nation—simply by having a racial identity.

Kwame Anthony Appiah

This view is an instance of what my friend Skip Gates has called cultural geneticism,80 It has, in Bertrand Russell's wicked phrase, the virtues of theft over honest toil. On this view, you earn rights to culture that is marked with the mark of your race— or your nation—simply by having a racial identity.

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