Deconstructing the white european majority.

[HoreTore]

If I went around shouting about 'deconstructing Asians in Europe' or some such I would locked up pretty damn quick. If the law is equal he deserves the same for being offensive to me.

Whathe said just before my quote, was that we have already deconstructed the asians.

I'm going on a safari tomorrow, so unfortunately I have to end my trolling. Krazilec wins the thread!

Hedid thecorrect thing, and asked "what does it mean?" yes.... What does deconstruction mean? It's quite obvious that none of the conservatives here know it. To me, that perfectly sums up the right's appraochto science; they don't have a clue, but act like they do.

So, on totheanswer; what does deconstruction mean?

Deconstruction is a scientific method in social anthropology(Hylland Eriksen's field). The method is to break down the field of study into as small parts as possible, identify all the parts and then see how they relate to each other. So, if you wanted to deconstruct the Norwegian population, you could start by breaking it up into "ethnic norwegians" and "immigrants". Then you could divide the "ethnic norwegians" into "northerners" and southerners, for example. Then you can go further and break them down to "rural" and "urban", "rich" and "poor", and so on.

As for the entire quote, what he is talking about is the following:

We have deconstructed all the various minority groups. We have studies on pakistanies who have been born herem pakistani's who have immigrated here, gay and straight muslims, rural and urban immigrants, etc etc. We have, however, not done the same with the majority population. Thomas Hylland Eriksen thus means that we do not have as good knowledge of the majority as we should have, and then urges his fellow researchers to focus on the various groups that make up the category "majority". He also wants it done properly, so that in the future there is no need to refer to a vague term like "the majority".

Sound scary? Nah. If you know the term, you know what it's about. If you don't, you should try to find outwhat that unknown word means, like Krazilec did. Add a hefty dose of ignorance and paranoia, however, and what you have is a conspiracy theory worthy of David Icke.