This is some colonial ass bullshit. Schopenhauer wrote "nation," not "ethnicity," and he was mocking European nationalists. Swapping the word turns it into a dunk on people whose cultures were targeted for erasure. Indigenous and Black folks keeping their languages, ceremonies, and histories alive isn't vanity, it's survival. The only people who never need ethnic pride are the ones whose identity got made the default. Also, quoting a guy who wrote a whole essay on women being inferior is bold.

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