My friend Alex Bellini was outraged at the use the good while conductor Fabio Fazio makes the concept of "ethnic "in place of the concept of" nationality "Fazio speaking ethnic Moroccan, Albanian, Romanian ethnicity, etc.. Alessio, I urged to better motivate his perplexity, he argued thus:
"the term ethnic group, as reported Annamaria Rivera warned by anthropologists as well as being the end that lends itself to more of an explanation (which will affect the scientific claims), is a euphemism for "race", a term taboo by the genocide of the Jewish people then. The problem is that it conveys the same meaning. Ethnic groups are always the others you've never heard of the Italians as a race? E 'therefore implies a negative opinion. The Albanians, Moroccans, Romanians, are not people or nationality, but ethnic groups are located so to a lower level of civilization. "
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I have expressed my point of view:
understand, and partly I agree. but only in part, because it is not not true that the term race has no scientific basis, at least as it may exist in the social sciences. Ethnos in greek means "people", but not in the spiritual sense and nineteenth-century Romantic (Mazzini) is used in sociology in the sense of lived common practices that give meaning to everyday life: language, first of all, written, oral (dialects) but also the body. In addition, the set of what is called material culture: artifacts, crafts, techniques, arts, cooking, etc.. Ethnography was established as a practice of "writing on peoples' others who were making the first European travelers when traveling to new worlds. Tocqueville among others, was the father of those in anthropology (and now also in sociology) today called ethnographic methods. So the ethnic groups, as a set of relatively homogeneous daily lived worlds do exist. There are buildings like all of the social sciences: a pact never to be "substantial" fixed, immutable, always conscious of being a point of view of the inevitable burden of prejudices and assumptions. The science of the social sciences is to constantly test the same social science concepts that it uses. It is certainly "politically correct" and to call the Albanians and Moroccans "nationality", where this means recognition of reciprocal rights and duties: their are citizens and political parties as we are. But from a sociological point of view-describing the concept of nationality is almost nil, if not misleading. Indeed, it is a case in which the fear of racism threatens to topple the racist fear of "the nation" is the most European and ethnocentric exists. What do we do when we go to try to understand something of the social and political structures in Africa (where nations have been designed with the team and the ruler of the European colonies) or other non-European cultures?
Sure, "etnometodi" should also apply to us. That's why I do not really angry when I find the Barilla pasta in the department of food dell'ethnic American supermarkets. Provided di mettere il burro di noccioline, il sushi e il cous cous nello stesso settore della Coop.
O mi sbaglio?
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