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What Does Your Identity Entitle You To?

What Does Your Identity Entitle You To?
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Humans are an imaginative species. Our minds are not limited to the bounds of reality or even lived experience. Rather, we can imagine all kinds of wonderful things that may not exist or may not exist for us as individuals. Science fiction is an exercise of our imaginations, as is alternative history.

Philip Carl Salzman
Philip Carl Salzman
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Philip Carl Salzman is professor emeritus of anthropology at McGill University, senior fellow at the Frontier Centre for Public Policy, fellow at the Middle East Forum, and Past President of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East.
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