Ruth Benedict citations

“The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences.”

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“Racism is the dogma that one ethnic group is condemned by nature to congenital inferiority and another group is destined to congenitial superiority.”

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Race: Science and Politics, 7

“In world history, those who have helped to build the same culture are not necessarily of one race, and those of the same race have not all participated in one culture. In scientific language, culture is not a function of race.”

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Ruth Benedict

Race: Science and Politics [1940], ch. 2

“Our children are not individuals whore rights and tastes are casually respected from infancy, as they are in some primitive societies . . . . They are fundamentally extension of our own egos and give a special opportunity for the display of authority.”

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Ruth Benedict Patterns of Culture

Patterns of Culture, 7