[BRIEF NOTE] Wikipedia gets it wrong, badly

[rfmcdonald]

I find myself taken aback by the Wikipedia's writers have reinforced ahistorical myths of primeval ethnic identity by creating pages devoted to definition of national ethnicities. My favourite example of this is the page on the ethnic French. This particular page has triggered a vigourous debate as to the neutrality of this page--not without reason, considering that Français de souche is often used as a code word by the French radical right--but the fact that these pages exist at all disturbs me.