And in the present we are all irremediably the products of our background, our training, our personality and social role, and the structured pressures within which we operate. (Immanuel Wallerstein)

And in the present we are all irremediably the products of our background, our training, our personality and social role, and the structured pressures within which we operate.

Immanuel Wallerstein

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