Caseres

G Caseres, “Tolerancia, Racismo, Fundamentalismo Y Nacionalismo” Política y Cultura 21 (2004) 7 –19.

Points out that the discourse of tolerance implies a certainty of one’s identity and ideas and of one’s own superiority.¹

Colonial process constructed on a discourse of cultural superiority.²

Sees eurocentrism as a basis for intolerance. Critiques the belief that Western culture should be the measuring standard.³

Sees religious messianism and nationalism as causes of intolerance. Sees nationalism as a “secularized” version of messianism coming out of the rubble of the wars of religion.⁴

1 G Caseres, “Tolerancia, Racismo, Fundamentalismo Y Nacionalismo” Política y Cultura 21 (2004) 7–19, 7–8.

2 G Caseres, “Tolerancia, Racismo, Fundamentalismo Y Nacionalismo” Política y Cultura 21 (2004) 7–19, 9.

3 G Caseres, “Tolerancia, Racismo, Fundamentalismo Y Nacionalismo” Política y Cultura 21 (2004) 7–19, 10.

4 G Caseres, “Tolerancia, Racismo, Fundamentalismo Y Nacionalismo” Política y Cultura 21 (2004) 7–19, 11.