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What ethnicity was Benedict Anderson?

  • Anglo-Irish

  • Chinese-Irish

  • Irish-America

  • African-Irish

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Benedict Anderson, known for his influential book "Imagined Communities," was of Anglo-Irish descent. He was born in Kunming, China, to Irish missionary parents and spent much of his childhood in Ireland. Anderson's background as an Anglo-Irish individual influenced his perspective on nationalism, identity formation, and postcolonial studies, which he explored extensively in his academic works.
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