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Yurugu gets rid of the masks from the ecu facade and thereby finds the internal workings of worldwide white supremacy: A procedure which capabilities to assure the keep watch over of Europe and her descendants over nearly all of the world's peoples.
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MacLeod's concern is that it will be destroyed if the race is allowed to die out. ) Below MacLeod recites those characteristics of Western European cultural tradition of which he is most proud; those things, in his conception, the European has given to the world. " And translated into the language of international political ambition, all of this says that a United Empire of the Western World will be the "ultimate expression of our civilization .... "76 These are the images provided by Lothrop Stoddard in The Rising Tide of Color: The man who ...
In this instance we are focusing on the significance of blackness in the negative European image of others. The pivotal dichotomy of blackness and whiteness in European symbiology are, of course, linked to that development. It is visible in the mythology, as far as we can tell, from the beginning of their cultural experience. Merlin Stone in her work on racism, calls attention to the Zend-Avesta (ca. ), the religious literature of the Aryans that is attributed to Zoroaster. Stone suggests that the mythology found therein expresses the beliefs inherited from a much more archaic oral tradition.
The white man's burden concept is not merely propaganda, it is an internalized self-portrait that functions normatively. This helps us to understand the European-American reaction to the airing of the The Africans series on Public Television (November 1986). " The location of European films is often an indication of that aspect of the European self-image the film is projecting. When the story takes place on foreign soil, the film becomes an opportunity for the expression of the European self-image in relation to the image of others.