ANTHRO 3AC Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Acculturation, Superiority Complex, Limpieza De Sangre
17 Nov 2020
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Lecture 4. 1 & 4. 2: whitening the population & scientific racism & la raza. Cosmica and indigenismo in mexico: nation-building & the dilemma of race. Nations competed with each other for the best immigrants and what they thought would be the best system to deal with immigrants. - social darwinism : application of darwinian selection to society. - other countries turned to europe as a strong and prominent light, so they developed a superiority complex. 1. 2 the race problem of latin american nation-building. Problem for nation building elites to make them competitive in world dominated by. 1. 3 two broad solutions developed by ruling elites (1) whitewashing (a) elimination (genocide) (b) massive european immigration genetic swamping of gene pool (i) Native argentinian population ~5% to <1% (c) argentina, paraguay, cuba mostly (2) celebrating mixed origins (a) elites celebrated mixing as source of national originality and pride (i) (ii) We are all mixed highly nationalistic theme.
