“To essentialize something is to define it by a set of deeply rooted and unchanging properties, or an essence,” said Chu. “For example, the category of ‘wolf’ is defined by a wolf ...

"[You can] live in society as long as you don’t essentialize your race or your gender or your sexual persuasion, but when you make that essential to who you are, then you have to play by the ...

This “strategy” reeks of trying to essentialize cultural and racial differences as the basis for stoking tensions with another major power. Skinner is quoted as saying, “You can’t have a ...