Kevin Gowen wrote:

> "British" and "Japanese" are races?

Biologically, there is only one race - the human race - but Shuji Matsuda
put it quite well when he wrote:
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"race (or ethnic prejudice)" is a political entity, which means that "race"
is determined by how the people perceive the "race."  This may sound like
tautology, but this is what politics is all about."
(http://tinyurl.com/ctjz)
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Anyway, what *did* you mean about dentists? Was Derek Smallsbury close to
the mark?

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John
http://rarebooksinjapan.com