Formulating a definition for the term "ethnicity" has vexed scholars across disciplines, resulting in a conceptual potpourri reeking of ideological factionalism. For example, a somewhat facile stance-bordering on the facetious-dismisses ethnicity as a social construct invented by anthropologists to ensure they find what they seek. One of the more radical definitions rejects classifying people along primordial racial lines in favor of viewing ethnicity as an "informal political organization."
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