Quotes About Europeanization

Foi no contexto dessa política [do 'bom selvagem'] que surgiu a figura do 'índio' aculturado ou em contato permanente com a urbanidade. [...] De um lado, o índio romântico que traz consigo as virtudes europeias; de outro, aquele que carrega consigo os genes da maldade, da traição, da luxúria, da preguiça etc.

Today all humans are, to a much greater extent than they usually want to admit, European in dress, thought and taste. They may be fiercely anti-European in their rhetoric, but almost everyone on the planet views politics, medicine, war and economics through European eyes, and listens to music written in European modes with words in European languages. Even today's burgeoning Chinese economy, which may soon regain its global primacy, is built on a European model of production and finance.

A case is made—confronted by Alexander in his response to the commentators—that by the 1990s an "Americanization" of the Holocaust as well as its "Europeanization" had sanctified moral reactions to the event without an adequate self-critical reflection about the West's imperialistic and colonial policies. Thus the acknowledgment by these nations of a moral universal, necessary to prevent Holocausts, seems somewhat rhetorical.

European centralism, European statism, the communitization of sovereign debt, a Europeanization of social systems and of the minimum wage would be the wrong way.

What Waringa tried hard to avoid was looking at the pictures of the walls and windows of the church. Many of the pictures showed Jesus in the arms of the virgin Mary or on the cross. But others depicted the devil, with two cow-like horns and a tail like a monkey's, raising one leg in a dance of evil, while his angels, armed with burning pitchforks, turned over human beings on a bonfire. The Virgin Mary, Jesus and God's angels were white, like European, but the devil and his angels were black.