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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Oshun: [QB] [QUOTE][qb]If your position is clines and you realize clustering is arbitrary (doubtful since your earlier posts contradict this), why are you [i]still[/i] positing a pan-African grouping? [/qb][/QUOTE]I'm used to discussing Africa as a generalized region, because I've seen enough times "Africa" made into a region and compared to other arbitrary regions. Often the set of Africans being compared to people outside of Africa is not consistent, but AE will generally gravitate to the "African" set. Because there's a central theme or pattern of of comparison is towards "Africa", so I say Africa. [QUOTE][qb] The answer is you're a black nationalist/pan-Africanist and your pan-African group lumps Egyptians with all populations in Sub-Sahara Africa - to fit your political interests. [/qb][/QUOTE]A pan Africanist encourages smaller regions in Africa to identify with the land as a whole. So as long as A/E had affinity to [b]any[/b] African people, this would be political leverage enough to a Pan Africanist given the worldview. Pan Africanists do not need to generalize the continent as a region. [QUOTE][qb] In contrast I'm not proposing any sort of pan/continental grouping for Egyptians (not with Europeans, or anyone) [/qb][/QUOTE]WTF you just grouped people of the Levant and Europe to say it is [b]they[/b] AE had more connection to. "Europe" isn't a literal continent but it often socially regarded as one for political reasons and gave birth to the Pan European identity we call today "whiteness." You then tried to justify doing it as you called everyone else political b/c Europe is "just right" in size compared to Africa. However specific ethnic groups in Europe exist and would provide more specific results. But it's okay to regard Europe and not simply a country or ethnic group in Europe. Typical Eurocentrism. :rolleyes: [QUOTE][qb]I've also criticized too broad geographical labels (as has Brace et al) i.e. if you arbitrarily cluster too many populations over a wide area of space, heterogeneity is maximized and so it is not useful to any analysis since there will be too dissimilar populations in the cluster/set/group. While all human clustering is arbitrary, some groupings are obviously more useful than others. [/qb][/QUOTE]And I'm sure consistently discussing a language or ethnic groups would've been more useful than saying "Europe." what becomes "too broad" is opinionated. What is "too dissimilar" is arbitrary since biological races don't exist. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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