Foreword. This post is the fruit of the spirit developed after critical examination of cultural anthropology, so I just poured a lot of my emotions. Good for you.
A book review program is an essay by Marco Aime (cultural anthropologist and professor at the University di Genova) on "Excesses of cultures." This essay, as you can imagine from the title, puts into question the policy of multiculturalism and the political manipulation by the awakenings made ethnic and racial hatred . Aime does not defend multiculturalism considering it a way to increase the barriers: the philosophy of taking the U.S. 's affirmative action, or the recognition of cultural rights for some some ethnic minorities, you put your finger on the problem rather than heal the wound, which continues to rinvagare the importance of cultural diversity, the necessity of its distance from the majority culture. So doing, we emphasize diversity, but this can lead to the integration of minorities? About
of cultural integration, I citarvi a step in the book, which in turn takes a funny anecdote of an anthropologist, Ralph Linton. Good reading.
The average American wakes up in a bed built to a design which originated in the Near East. He pulled back the sheets and blankets that can be cotton, plant native to India, or linen, plant originated from the Near East, or sheep's wool, animal originally domesticated in the Near East, or silk, whose use was discovered in China. All these materials have been invented yarns and fabrics according to procedures in the Near East. He puts on his moccasins invented by Indians in the wooded lands of the East, and goes to the bathroom, whose accessories are a mix of European and American inventions, both on recently. Takes off his pajamas, a garment invented in India, and washes with soap invented by the ancient Gauls. Then he shaves, a masochistic rite which seems to be derived from the ancient Sumerians and Egyptians.
Back in the bedroom, took his clothes from a chair to the model was developed in southern and dresses. She wears garments whose form originally derived from the leather-clad nomads from the steppes of Asia, puts on shoes made of leather dyed by a process invented in ancient Egypt, cut according to a model derived from the classical civilizations of the Mediterranean, you put around his neck a strip of bright colors which is a surviving vestige of the shawls that the Croats were held on the shoulders of the seventeenth century. [...]
Going to breakfast, he stops to buy a newspaper, paying with currencies which are an ancient Lydian invention. The restaurant is in contact with a whole new set of elements from other cultures: its plate is made of a type of pottery invented in China, and his knife is of steel, an alloy made for the first time in South India, fork Italian medieval origins, the spoon is a derivative from the original Roman Empire. It takes its coffee, Abyssinian plant, with cream and sugar. Both the idea of \u200b\u200bbringing the cows to milk them originated in the Near East, while sugar was mined in India for the first time. After the fruit and coffee, eat waffles, cakes, according to a Scandinavian technique, wheat, a native of Asia Minor. [...]
When our friend has finished eating, leans against the chair back and smokes, according to a habit of the Indians of America, consuming the plant domesticated in Brazil or smoking a pipe, derived from the Indians of Virginia or a cigarette, derived from Mexico. It can also smoke a cigar, transmitted to us from the West Indies, through Spain. Smokes while reading news of the day, imprinted in characters invented by the ancient Semites upon a material invented in China and by a process invented in Germany. While reading the accounts of the problems which trouble abroad, if it is a good conservative citizen, an Indo-European language, thank a Hebrew deity to have done it one hundred percent American.
(Ralph Linton, The study of man , Il Mulino, Bologna 1973, pp. 359-60, quoted by Marco Aime in Excess of cultures )
Above Today that culture is losing its meaning thanks to the strictly territorial transnational influences, we reflect on what is a continual ebb of other cultures, that is, on what she is a real intercultural.
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Lorenzo
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