Word: amhara
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...forces. And even as America exports its dotcom optimism around the world, many other countries export their primal animosities to America. Get in a cab near the Capitol, say, or the World Trade Center and ask the wrong question, and you are likely to hear a tirade against the Amhara or the Tigreans, Indians or Pakistanis. If all the world's a global village, that means that the ancestral divisions of every place can play out in every other. And the very use of that comforting word village tends to distract us from the fact that much of the world...