The Toxicity of Taxonomy- Stereotyping the Irish

For years I had confidently attributed one of my favorite quotations to Ralph Waldo Emerson: “All generalizations are dangerous including this one”. It seems it was not Emerson. Some have claimed it for Mark Twain because he often wrote witty things like that. Now, it seems that the favourite is Alexander Dumas but am not … Continue reading The Toxicity of Taxonomy- Stereotyping the Irish