Building Difference: the Latin-americans

Authors

  • Dolores Juliano

Abstract

For all subordinate group it's possible to offer a false disyuntive: integration (changing it self in bad copy) or to keep specific but discriminated. It is imposible to avoid this option if there is no refuse of the main implicit premise: the tacit agreement that the way of life of the dominant group is morally superior to that of the lowly. We can use the relativism to create closed compartiments, in what everyone remain in your specificity. But discrimination can also be used against very alike people. In Spain is interesant to know the mechanism of inclusion/exclusion for the «latin-americans» subjects. They haven't differences, we can find here the social construction of boundary. I found the preceding during the last half of me mineteenth century; the concept «indiano» made foreigns the natives. This is so for the second generation of retourned. In the last time, the neologism «sudacas» point the social foreign situation for this group. The bounduries can are either actived or neutralized in social interaction and, of course, in the school.

Keywords

discrimination, etnicity, cultural relativism, assimilationism

Published

1994-01-01

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