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          1. A warning to those considering partition as a solution in Ukraine from people who know better. @oonuch/1503330962939207685
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          Nationality, ethnicity, and language don't always map onto one another. Many multiethnic polities exist, even in Europe, and certainly in Ukraine.
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        And the given the Jewish, Roma, Sinti minorities, Eastern European nationalisms must choose between being multiethnic and exclusionary.
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      As Ukrainians have rallied against the 2014 Russian government's invasion, and today's assaults, many Russian speakers have become involved in Ukrainian nationalism.
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    (These linked experts know way more about this than I do.)
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      What I can say as an anthropologist, is that so-called primordial ethnic conflict usually isn't primordial. It's produced in the present, in the service of political projects.