Ethnicity discursively enables self-enunciation for everyone, including dominant groups

Evidence

All relations among men are determined by the varying degrees of this incompleteness. Whatever the cause of this incompleteness, its consequence is a generalization of the psychological picture that we have of another, a generalization that results in a blurring of contours which adds a relation to other pictures to the uniqueness of this one. … We think of him in terms not only of his singularity but also in terms of a general category. This category, of course, does not fully cover him, nor does he fully cover it. It is this peculiarly incomplete coincidence which distinguishes the relation between a human category and a human singularity from the relation which usually exists between a general concept and the particular instance it covers. — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 174 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Everyone, even the most modern, speaks from a located ethnicity under erasure; Orientalist typing subordates individual Arab experience to a fixed collective essence; Every person is perceived as both unique individual and general type — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 174 (+3 more)

Related

• Orientalist discourse reduces human plurality to a few fixed collective abstractions (similarity 0.80)
• Every person is perceived as both unique individual and general type (similarity 0.80)
• Ethnicity is a discursive capacity to enunciate identities, and everyone has one. (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• Every person is perceived as both unique individual and general type #corroborates (0.82) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 174
• Everyone is composed of multiple social identities that position them differently #corroborates (0.80)
• Orientalist typing subordates individual Arab experience to a fixed collective essence #complicates (0.78)
• Orientalist discourse reduces human plurality to a few fixed collective abstractions #complicates (0.78)
• Strangers are perceived by type rather than as individuals #complicates (0.74) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 401