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I am pleased not only that Ethnic and Racial Studies chose to remember a nearly forty-year-old article, but also that it is evidently continuing to be read. And as a researcher, I am equally pleased that an ageing empirically derived concept still seems to be relevant. John Stone’s and Kelsey Harris’s complimentary and wide-ranging commentary also discussed my later writing on ethnicity. For this reason, much of their commentary is about ethnicity rather than symbolic ethnicity (SE). My response will follow this pattern as well, although I cannot comment on all the topics they discuss.