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A Guide to Talking about Racism | 124 How can we manage to become conscious of things? By observing, reading, travelling, talking, coexisting. 37 And what should we become aware of? We become conscious of the distance between the ideas and the images we have of people and things and what we discover about them by travelling, observing, talking... “I had never travelled to Latin America, and even though on TV they always talked about them like our Latin American brothers and sisters, to tell the truth, I didn’t feel very close to them, except for a certain feeling of fondness I’ve always had for them. Recently, I took a trip to Mexico and the direct contact with people there has completely changed the feelings they produced in me. Contact with their reality and their experiences (so close, on many occasions, to ours) have made me rethink a whole series of conditioning factors that I was living with but was hardly aware of.” (Doctoral student, UNED) Because it is difficult to imagine yourself in that situation if no one has experienced it, and if you don’t put yourself in that situation, maybe you can’t know what is best for it. Even if you have experienced it, it might not be, it might still be very difficult, or maybe you don’t consider it any more, then other things, yes, trips, I’ve seen other ways of thinking, other kinds of rankings, of classifications, of… or ways of living, things that there’s no reason why they should make me think… I don’t know, no, not that, I think that maybe also... no, no, I don’t know, I think that, trips, having lived somewhere else, and seen other people’s points of view, opinions of other people who haven’t had the chance to travel or who have used their opportunities in a different way, they’ve learned other things from them or they have managed these life experiences in a different way, or they simply took them along the same path, but the road is still different. 38 We are all made up of multiple identities, or rather of an identity that is multiple. Our personality, the way we are, is the sum of our experiences, of our encounters throughout life, of our reading, and also of our cultural referents. “From the moment we conceive of our identity as integrated by multiple belongings, some linked to ethnic history and others not, some linked to a religious tradition and others not, from the moment we see in ourselves, in our origins, and in our trajectory, 37 In section 3, you will find resources to help you in this task. 38 Almost all of the interviews quoted in this module belong to the Report on Racism that has already been cited (INTER Group 2007). When this is not the case, it is explicitly stated.
Module 5. Racism: How can we deal with it? | 125 different decisive elements, different contributions, different hybridizations, different subtle and contradictory influences, a different relation is established with the rest and also with our own tribe.” Amin Maalouf. Identidades asesinas. Alianza Editorial Ethnographic map 1. Make a map with the origins of the last three generations of your family using your generation (for example, yourself or a sibling of yours) as the generational basis. On your map, your mother’s side and your father’s side, with their respective origins identified, should be represented. 2. Identify the migratory movements of the members on the map. 3. Analyze the description given in the previous sections, taking into account Maalouf’s reflection in the quote above. In our everyday coexistence, we continually use and hear phrases and expressions that manifest rejection toward behavior, people, and attitudes that we feel do not fit our canons of behavior, dress, attitude, etc. Expressions such as “What a gypsy you are,” “Stop talking like that, you sound like a woman,” are used naturally and without full awareness of what they involve. If someone recriminates our use of these terms, we quickly reason that they are not racist terms at all, but socially and culturally set phrases, that are no more than a “simple joke or comment.” However, this is not true. These expressions, that we have interiorized so much, really do reflect an opinion and an attitude about the whole of the group we are talking about. We use them to disaccredit the behavior of others, behavior that we “do not accept” or “do not understand” and with this judgment we are placing ourselves above the other, we situate ourselves in a situation of superiority. The problem is that they feed the disqualifiaction of the other from an attitude of innocence (Maalouf, A., 1999). These phrases are not innocent and, as Amin Maalouf expresses, these kinds of expressions contribute to perpetuate prejudices that have shown their great capability to provoke clashes throughout history.
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