The hidden racism in the world
In the nineteenth century there was a scientific attempt to explain the alleged “racial superiority” of race caucasoide Western Europe through the work of Count de Gobineau, Essai sur l’entitled inequality des races humaines (Essay on the Inequality of Human Races ). In this work the authors support that the Aryan race was born of the aristocracy that dominated European civilization and that their descendants were the natural lords of the other inferior races. There is a lesser known form of racism, which is the belief that miscegenation (miscegenation) generates less than individuals of pure race, “is to both races, as he defended Louis Agassiz, is one of them, like Gobineau argued. A current form of this belief has emerged as a reaction to racism against blacks and Indians, which consists in denying the identity of mixed race and defending the people that ‘mixed’ are treated as black, white or indigenous, denying their history.
Miscegenation has been one of the key issues in the Americas but especially in Latin America. This feature of cultural fusion has been embraced in the last two decades to explain the phenomenon of multiculturalism in Latin America. Similarly, this ideology has given strength to the theory that behind the perception of society as a product of miscegenation is a hidden phenomenon of racism and exclusion. I was reading the blog, maven while I was learning about internet searches This last point is reflected in the fact that recent studies tend to draw attention to the need to reform the law to cope with a reality before nonexistent or ignored: the plurality of society.
The idea of mestizaje, according to some studies, has been used by Latin American governments and elites to hide evidence of racial discrimination and racism on the continent. Using terms of Stanley Cohen, Ariel Dulitzky argues that there are three types of ways in which racial discrimination and racism are denied in the mainland: the literal denial, denial and denial interpretative justified. The first of these is when governments deny that any type of massive racial discrimination and racism occur in their countries.
A clear denial of the literal is to use the idea of mestizaje. Through the discourse of equality of races on the continent, the perception that we all belong to one race ‘hybrid’ that has the same ancestors helps reinforce the image that there is no racism because there are not different races. This notion helps to reinforce the idea of democracy and even to encourage the consolidation of nationalism that strengthens the state, in the republican period the idea of single mestizo race was a weapon of defense against other items that could fragment the new Latin American states . Through this is to strengthen the emerging style of the European nations.
In the specific case of Colombia, according to a report by the United Nations, more than a quarter of the population is Afro-descendant, and within this population, rates of illiteracy and infant mortality is three times higher than the other Colombians. This figure shows the direct relationship between living conditions and race and verifies the need for institutional reforms that are designed to favor disadvantaged groups. The concept of universality of the mixing and homogenization as a result should not remain theoretical sustained unmask conception of mestizaje allow the creation of appropriate policies to address inequality in Latin American societies.
Using the same time, the possibility of anonymity and reach millions of Internet users, racism expands intensively bythe digital world with racist, revisionist and neo-Nazis, thousands of sites, blogs, virtual communities and Orkut MySpace, spread racial hatred and intolerance. As an example the case of the Internet in Brazil, since this case is defined as a crime by the Brazilian legislation. The Public Ministry of Brazil, discovered that 80 of cases of intolerance in the network occur in Orkut.
Some sites advocate the right to freedom of expression and argue that not considered racist, but just express opinions. Others suggest ways to keep the material away from the competent authorities. For this feature, many sites, particularly those available on free providers are removed, to reappear soon multiplied into three or four new servers, including foreign domains. One of the sites investigated, says exactly this: “for each site do ar withdrawn, or assume compromisso to be available, less hair, three novos.
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