The Other
“Your Christ is Jewish. Your car is Japanese. Your pizza is Italian. Your democracy is Greek. Your coffee is Brazilian. Your numbers are Arabic, your alphabet Latin. Only your neighbor is a foreigner”. Thus it was written on a German manifesto of the Seventies. Words that highlight how those we call...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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The University of Akureyri
2019-09-01
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| Series: | Nordicum-Mediterraneum |
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| Online Access: | https://nome.unak.is/wordpress/volume-14-no-2-2019/conference-proceedings-volume-14-no-2-2019/the-other/ |
| Summary: | “Your Christ is Jewish. Your car is Japanese. Your pizza is Italian. Your democracy is Greek. Your coffee is Brazilian. Your numbers are Arabic, your alphabet Latin. Only your neighbor is a foreigner”. Thus it was written on a German manifesto of the Seventies. Words that highlight how those we call “others” are often the product of our construction and not an objective reality. Why then build the other? Because it is essential to define “us”. We are what the other is not and that is why we often, too often, configure the other as an icon of all evil. We need bad guys to think about them. |
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| ISSN: | 1670-6242 1670-6242 |