Facundo: Or, Civilization and Barbarism (Penguin Classics)

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by Domingo F. Sarmiento

Facundo: Civilization and Barbarism (original Spanish title: Facundo: Civilización y Barbarie) is a book written in 1845 by Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, a writer and journalist who became the seventh president of Argentina. It…

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

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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