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What are two ways in which Sarmiento engages in the practice of othering in Facundo. Who or what is he othering, and why? What civilized norm was created in that process and to whom did civilization and the nation belong?

 

tyra h #201313
Sep 20, 2011 6:23 PM

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What are two ways in which Sarmiento engages in the practice of othering in Facundo. Who or what is he othering, and why? What civilized norm was created in that process and to whom did civilization and the nation belong?

Othering as a process can include a dehumanization of certain peoples in order to establish a legitimate, reasonable, civilized norm against that inferior 'other' is compared.

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