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We Are Human
Unity, belonging, and why isolation is the real pandemic.
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Revise
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Law 1 · We Are Human
The Anthropology Of Hospitality Across Cultures
### Why Hospitality Is Worth Studying Seriously
The study of hospitality tends to get filed under cultural anthropology or tourism studies — polite subjects for polite conversations. That filing is a mistake. Hospitality is one of the core social technologies through which human communities have managed the problem of difference, and understanding it with precision has direct implications for contemporary community design, immigration policy, and conflict resolution.
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