Immanuel Vallerstein about Categories of the Race, Nation and the Ethnic Group

The formation of the world economic system, a fairly stable global division of labor and intercountry differentiation in terms of wealth has become a fact and attribute of modernity. The diversity of economic, cultural and socio-political development options has not been without contradictions, simultaneous co-existence of opposing trends. One of the most notable manifestations of this process was the simultaneous dissemination of the ideologies of globalization and localization. These and other significant changes in the qualitative characteristics of modern societies led to an appeal to theoretical developments of ethnic, national and religious themes. This article focuses on the interpretation of categories
of race, nation, and ethnic group, proposed by I. Wallerstein.

Keywords: world economic system, one's own, another's, universalism, race, racism, nation, ethnic group.