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Pretensa superioridade europeia e o desconhecimento da alteridade

Abstract

The purpose of the present work is to expose the alleged European superiority and the despising of the Latin American otherness. According to this outlook, let's recall that right after the throwing of the last Arabian Caliphate out of the Iberian Peninsula — with whom they had conflicted for almost eight centuries — the Europeans turned their concerns towards the American Continent where they eventually came to land and to colonize. This way, an extremely warlike, catechist, scriptural and linear people came into collision with another strangely rhythmical, sensual, analogical and oral one. This phenomenon — the shock of different cultures and ethnology — has not been well analysed so far. Juan Goytisolo writes about this in his “El Linguage del Cuerpo”: “Hasta la fecha, ningún historiador o ensayista ha calibrado como se debe la importancia de este fenomeno y su formidable impacto en la configuracion mental y vital del país”. Keeping this in mind, we have written this work, as a contribution to the understanding os this shock of cultures, adding an extensive bibliography, worth researching.