From: José María Iglesias
Date: Tue, Jan 16, 2018 at 12:54 PM
Date: Tue, Jan 16, 2018 at 12:54 PM
President Trump has shocked the world again with a new racist statement: "African and Haitian immigrants hail from shithole countries". These associations are found in our language denigrating explicitly an entire group of people, such as the definition of Africa as the "dark continent", and dominate our perceptions of success and attributions of worth and value.
This kind of ideas are connected with a book I have recently read: Atlas of prejudice by Yanko Tsvetkov, in which the author shows through hilarious maps the different points of view in the history of mankind. The book tries to demonstrate that prejudices almost always turn out to be false when examined closely. Everybody knows the most popular prejudices are often not quite nice and are mostly political incorrect. However, every society is prone to marginalize specific groups, using insults against those who are considered strange. Even in a globalized world stereotypes remain inevitable.
This book soon became a viral online sensation, expanding the initial idea with a large number of memes about any topic of common interest. Have we not yet freed ourselves from our prejudices?
José María Iglesias
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