“We are neither Indian, nor European, but a species lying somewhere in between the legitimate owners of the land and the Spanish usurpers…” Simon Bolivar (Letter from Jamaica). – Claudio Chipana – People of mixed heritage, mestizos, are a challenge to racial purity and the idea of a monolithic nation. […]
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National character’: reality or nonsense?
In a western world premised on a culture of denial of differences, is a concept of ‘national character’ meaningful? Or a basis for harmful stereotyping? Can we learn anything constructive about differences, if, indeed, they exist? . Nigel Pocock . Studies of neurogenesis and synaptogenesis (the life-long generation of new […]
The other, the same
I woke up this morning wondering what the best way to die would be. I’d been reading about it in Che Guevara’s Reminiscences of the Cuban Revolutionary War, and Che himself had read about it in Jack London’s To Build a Fire. I’d discovered London’s book a while back being […]
Towards Latin American multiculturalism
Proposals like the plurinational state in Evo Morales’ Bolivia and the incorporation of elements of the indigenous world-view like ‘sumac causay‘ (good living) in Latin American political discourse, marks a shift toward political multiculturalism in Latin America. .Claudio Chipana G. . Multicultural reality is nothing new, it not a […]
The globe… in the hands of a few of the wealthy
Not long ago, the 200 largest global transnational companies accounted for 29% of world economic activity. Africa and Latin America are not on that list and Asian tigers account for less than 1%. Roberto F. Campos We now accept the very well-known saying, “the rich are increasingly rich?” […]
















