Fear of Small Numbers: An Essay on the Geography of Anger

Appadurai turns his attention to the complex dynamics of the violence in this age of globalization. "...why small numbers represent a tiny obstacle between majority and totality or total purity? In a sense, the smaller the number and the weaker the minority, the deeper the rage about its capacity to make a majority feel the loke a mere majority rather than like a whole and uncontested ethnos" (page 53)