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This 4 page paper examines this book and answers two questions posted by a student. The paper is written in Q&A format. One essay addresses the problem of carrying cultural baggage and the other looks at viewing ethnicity more like wine instead of blood. No additional sources cited.
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Viewing ethnicity as wine as opposed to blood suggests that one examine ethnicity as something that is not as rigid as many claim. Baumann uses an analogy suggesting
that religion relies on sacred texts as opposed to just looking at it as something that the people embrace to change their lives. In that same way, people do look
at ethnicity as equated with blood as opposed to something that is not as set. The author notes the following: " "Pure blood," however, is precisely the label under which
ethnicity is sold by ethnopolitical movements" (Baumann 64). Actually, what is being expressed is the idea that one should look at ethnic movements not equated with race or blood or
lineage but something equated with ideology. Hence, the blood represents the blood line or heredity whereas the wine looks just like blood, but is very different. The wine is not
as thick as blood and is changeable. In other words, ethnicity then can be adopted. It is not necessary to be able to trace ones heritage to a certain blood
line. The idea is controversial. Yet, it does to some extent resolve dilemmas in terms of viewing culture. There are many people who are adopted into a family who they
perhaps resemble. Suppose a girl who is born to Italian parents but is adopted by a Jewish family. The girl may have similar features to her adoptive family and the
family who raises her considers her to be Jewish in every way. However, if she later finds out about the adoption, she may not consider herself Jewish primarily due to
the "blood" factor. If one thinks of ethnicity as wine and not blood, the dilemma is resolved. The author claims that ethnicity relies on tracing cultural differences to biological roots
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