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1 Yale J.L. & Human. 205 (1988-1989)
Jews, Bicycle Riders, and Gay People: The Determination of Social Consensus and Its Impact of Minorities

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Jews, Bicycle Riders, and Gay People:
The Determination of Social Consensus
and Its Impact on Minorities
John Eastburn Boswell
It is written in a Chinese encyclopedia of the Middle Ages that
animals are divided into fourteen categories:
1. belonging to the emperor
2. embalmed
3. tame
4. suckling pigs
5. sirens
6. fabulous
7. stray dogs
8. included in the present classification
9. frenzied
10. innumerable
11. drawn with a very fine camel-hair brush
12. et cetera
13. having just broken the water pitcher
14. appearing to be flies from a long way off.'
Western societies have deployed a variety of strategies to create stan-
dards of the good to direct human conduct and enforce notions of civic
behavior. The nature and sources of these standards as well as their rela-
1. The significance and source of this quotation are explained at the conclusion of the essay.

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