Jesse Bernstein

[Jesse Bernstein @__jbernstein]

@TanaGaneva @alananewhouse herder, tana. as in Johann Gottfried Herder, the thinker that she cites throughout this section. i take no position on bulgarian culture and heritage. if you had read the piece outside of this single paragraph, you might have understood

[Jesse Bernstein @__jbernstein]

@TanaGaneva @alananewhouse my understanding here is that she is citing herder's reference to bulgaria, not that she picked bulgaria out of a hat

[Jesse Bernstein @__jbernstein]

@TanaGaneva @alananewhouse she was not citing bulgaria. that was in the middle of a passage describing the ideas of herder, who specifically identifies those nationalities as having done so